Walking in Circles...

Sometimes a shout, sometimes a whisper, and at other times dead silent.  That voice that has been called intuition, conscience, or even Jiminy Cricket is the voice of God, the Spirit of Jesus.  It is the voice that leads us into and out life's decisions.

For me I am an outside thinker.  I have to audibly say something for my brain to soul to catch up with my brain or maybe really it is the other way around.  Either way I have to make verbal sense of the seeming nonsense swirling inside.  I have taken to a habit based on a book I read and teaching series we have done at church.  I have begun walking in circles.  Yes, literally walking in circles - around the things that I long to see God do in my life.  In this case, it is the building that I desire a job in.

God's promise is not the job.  I never heard that voice whisper or shout "this is your job".  But the promise came in an overwhelming assurance from God that there would be an end to our struggle.  For years, in all honesty, our finances have been a roller coaster - times we have been making progress on paying off bad financial choices and times of struggling having more month than money.  So I have circled the promise of God's provision and placed my faith into action by literally "circling" the specification of how I believe God wants to answer that promise.

Truth is, I may not get that job, but it doesn't change God's promise of provision.  It simply changes the specifics of how he fulfills it in our life.  Either way...I will keep circling.