Today's post is going to be a pretty short one but it's relevant to where I find myself right now. As many of you know, I am in the process of trying to discover where God is calling me to serve in ministry. A couple of years ago I thought that I had found that path but it turned out to be a closed door. Since then I have continued to serve in the church and tried to learn and grow from the leadership opportunities that I have been given. There are days it is difficult to be patient...it is difficult to rest...to trust that God's plan is the right plan. Especially when I don't totally know what that plan is... I wrote this poem after that door closed a couple years ago and God brought it back to my memory today so I thought I would share it. Some of you have seen it before but it is as true now as it was when I wrote it. Poetry is not really my jam but it definitely got me back in the right frame of mind. No matter how long it takes for God to reveal His plan to me I will wait and be ready to respond to it. I pray that if you are feeling lost or without direction that this poem would speak His truth to you. He will always be there to lead you and provide for your needs.
DIRECTION
Lost
Now what, God?
Why did you mislead me?
Direction is all I want,
Yet I am adrift in an open sea.
Lost
Adrift? Not on my watch,
Forty years in a desert,
Roadside assistance near Damascus,
A Commission directed by My Spirit.
Up on a cross,
Down in His tomb,
Over death my Son lifted high,
Far and wide my Grace covers all.
Direction you say?
East and West is my view of your sin,
Down from Heaven my Son came,
Up to Heaven He was raised again.
Up on a cross,
Down in His tomb,
Over death my Son lifted high,
Far and wide my Grace covers all.
Pressing forward again,
Christ's faith guiding my own,
Reorienting myself to God's "True North",
My Polaris is shaped like a cross.