I am truly excited to share with you the wonderful things that
God is going to reveal to us. I don't even know what is going to
come of this blog or what I am exactly going to write to you, as
each word is truly going to be led by the Holy Spirit. So to tell
you the truth, I am just as excited as you are to find out what the
Lord plans to tell us!
The Lord has truly pressed it on my
heart to start with this website and follow His leading (For quite
a while now I might add). I have delayed and delayed, with all
sorts of excuses. You know how we are as humans, if something more
than the ordinary and the 'required' is expected of us, we prefer
to have an excuse or two as to why it isn't appropriate at the
moment. Anything from 'I started work again and am extremely busy',
to 'My baby is getting teeth and I didn't sleep well for the past
few weeks', to 'Why would anyone listen to me anyway? Who am
I?' Yes the excuses came rolling in! And would you believe it
if I tell you that even though the Lord was talking to me
specifically, I was looking at what He was doing in other people's
lives instead, rather than doing what He tells me to do. I
even had the nerve to be envious of people working for the Lord and
using their websites to His glory. Whilst I didn't even make the
effort to spend enough time with Him or even do what He tells me to
do.
Until one day when He said to me:
'Enough is enough. Either you continue with your life as it is, or
you start doing what I require of you.' Again my answer was 'But
Lord why would anyone listen to me? Who am I that You would want to
use me? I am not famous, I didn't get a gold medal at the Olympics,
and I am not outrageously clever nor am I a beauty queen. I am a
nobody in the eyes of the World.' And do you know what His answer
was? He said: 'Ilze, I know exactly who you are, even
better than you know yourself. I have known you even before I
created the world. I see you with all the potential and gifts
inside and I have a purpose for you. Stop looking at everyone else.
Stop looking at what I am doing in their lives. That is actually
none of your business. Look up to Me and listen to the plans
I have for you and listen to what I want you to
do. I have orchestrated the universe to work alongside you to bring
a message to the world. All of nature is waiting in anticipation
for you to start. Everything will work alongside you. All I need is
your willingness to do as I ask. Leave the rest to Me.'
So here I am, starting with this
website. Who can argue with the Maker of the Heavens and the Earth?
Who can ignore His call on your life? Who even wants to try? Moses
tried to get out of the call that the Lord had on His life. He used
every excuse he could think of. But imagine if he didn't heed to
the call of the Lord and turned his back on Him. I wonder how his
life would have turned out. Where would he have ended up? The Lord
would certainly have found someone else to lead His people, I have
no doubt, but where would Moses have been? He would have missed the
most wonderful, awesome experience of working alongside the Lord of
Lords, the King of Kings. He would have missed the most incredible
encounters with God, where the Lord even called Moses 'His friend'
and allowed Moses to talk to Him face to face. How awesome that
must have been! And Moses would have missed it all if he didn't
obey the calling of the Lord. I am going to talk about Moses and
the lessons from his life a bit more in my following blogs.
But for now I simply want to leave
you with one question to think about: Has it ever happened in your
life that you know that you know that you know that you must have
done something and you didn't? (I am obviously not talking about
something irresponsible or against the Word of God) Have you ever
thought what would have happened if you would have done it? Think
about it, next time I will share a story from my life where I
didn't do what the Lord wanted me to do. All I can tell you now is
that after that incident, I learned a big lesson. The Lord wants to
use you (yes, He wants to use everybody!), but if you refuse, you
will still go to heaven (of course I assume here that you are a
newborn Christian), you will still have an okay life, but you would
have missed something extraordinary!
Lord, please help us to learn to
listen carefully to Your Voice. Help us to block out all other
noises which hinder us to hear Your tender Voice talking to us. And
above all Lord, when we do hear Your Voice and when we do know what
You expect of us, please give us the courage and the strength to
obey.
We love you Lord. Amen