Leaving Home

As I sit in my cozy home and watch the snow falling outside my window, I am mindful of those who have no home.  How blessed I am to be warm, have good food to eat, a roof over my head.  My mind drifts to leaving this home, to the path that strecthes out before us, what the Father is calling us to do.  What will home look like this time next year?  Will it be the same, will it be different?  I remember Jesus saying that He had no place to lay his head and again I am struck how very blessed I am.  Yet there is a conflict in me because I am also ready to put a sign in the yard and GO; go to the place he called us, begin the journey.  Waiting is a hard thing, deciding when to sell and what the next step is always creates a tension that begs to hear clearly from the Father who sees it all, who plans the path of our life.  We long to walk the path HE is preparing, not going to the right or the left. 

Last night, after the children were tucked into bed and all was quiet, I picked up a book I had gotten at the library and there, on the front page was Hebrew 11:8.

It was by FAITH that Abraham obeyed

when God called him to leave home

and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. 

He went without knowing where he was going.

It was sweet manna for me.  Leaving requires a FAITH and an OBEDIENCE; A TRUST in the ONE who sees it all and has a plan.  Even if it is not clear in my natural abilities to understand.  He KNOWS.  How refreshing, how peaceful.  Isn't it amazing that we can walk with Faith and also walk in His PRESENCE.  When we do, we miss nothing--not the miracles or the intimate relationship!!  When Jesus called his disciples to come, the came not knowing what it would look like and yet they left ALL and followed.  I sometimes wonder...when we step onto the soil of that distant land, will I look around and say "how can I feel like I have come home, when I have never been here before?"

I'm ready Father, ready to leave home...I will go where you say, when you say.  I know that provision is already there, I know that the path is being laid out as the day draws near.  I praise you because you are the I AM!!