Weathering the storm

These past few weeks a storm has been ravaging almost half of the country. The South, the East and the Mid-west have been hammered nonstop by Ice and snow and blizzard like conditions and we have been smack-dab in the middle of it since it started. Being North-westerners we don’t get to experience storms of this magnitude very often and we found ourselves confronted by something that took us out of our comfort zones, somethings that caused us to have worry about our future on the roads. If anything I’ve learned about being in this storm, is that God is always in control. God’s calling is always going to lead us, even if we are stuck, literally frozen to the ground, God’s purpose is still there. You see, when we got buffeted by the storm to the point where we could barely get 10ft out the door without slipping on the ice, we could’ve looked at our circumstances and said that our purpose of being on the road and bringing music to people was brought to a halt. We could have felt lost and confused because we weren’t fulfilling our “purpose”. We realized that it never is about “our” calling, it is never about what we can do for God for His will to be done. God’s calling still exists even when we cannot find the means to travel, because this life is not about bringing so many  extraordinary abilities to God’s table and allowing Him to use our resources. Life is about saying to God, Lord, I want to be apart of whatever you are doing. Simple, surrender, allowing Him to have His will and purpose brought here on this earth. It is only when we come to God and ask what it is He is doing in this moment, this time right now, that we truly enter in to the calling He has for our lives’. I hear so many people that talk about this specific calling placed on their lives’ and I have no doubt that God might have placed it there, but if we as a people serving God allow our “callings” to get in the way of allowing God to have His will in the situation, we are greatly hindering what God might have for us in that circumstance. One thing this storm has brought to us, other than inches of ice and feet of snow, is an understanding that no matter what happens to us or where we go, as long as we are willing to say, Lord have your way regardless of where that leads us, we are always living in the calling that God has for us.

-Joel

8 February 2011 ·