Wherever He Leads, I'll Go...

The call on our lives is to "deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow him." We must make attempts to plan ahead, but we must ultimately trust in the sovereign purpose of God. The honest and good desires I have for my life, just may not be the desires that He has for my life. This doesn't discourage me or make my life incomplete, but instead offers me great encouragement. I will be quick to tell you that I have no idea where God may call me, but I my prayer is this... "Wherever You lead, Lord I'll go." I'm not saying that this will always be easy or crystal clear but one promise remains, "and lo I am with you even to the end of the age." I don't know where He is taking me, but I rest in the promise that wherever that may be He is. My prayer is that wherever I find myself that I would be an active part in fulfilling the great commission and that I would be faithful with the immediate tasks that He places before me. Of course my natural inclination is to return to minister where I am from, but when you surrender your life to the call of God that just isn't always the case. God will send me wherever He desires and knows where I will be most effective. I pray that I would never find myself taking the place of Him in my life and making decisions without seeking Him. The truth of the matter is that this life is complicated. People will always push you to plan ahead even plan your life out, and I say do that but hold on loosely to those plans. People will always say to have a backup plan, and my backup plan is to step back and seek the face of God. I really do believe that He is in control, and that He can handle this apart from my slanted input. May God truly lead, guide, and direct us.