August 28, 2006--Learning to wait on God

I suppose I should update my blog. I haven't done it in awhile, because we've sort of been at a place where we weren't really sure WHAT God wants us to do. I seem to have heard God whispering "wait" a few times, but that's one word that I'm not good at doing. Really, I love to obey the Lord. Whatever He tells me to do, I'll do it. If he wants us to buy a house, no problem! If he wants us to stay here, great! If he wants us to move out of the area again, I'd say, "Yes Lord, whatever Your will!" But the "wait" drives me crazy. I want God to tell me what to do NOW so I can hurry up and obey Him! What does He want me to wait for? How long? What should we be doing in the meantime? I don't know. It's very awkward to have people ask me what our plans our and have to say, "Mmm, don't know. God hasn't told us yet." It's sometimes hard to explain to people, helpful people who send us job opportunities and houses for sale, because we don't know what we should do. Over the last week or so, pondering all this, I'm feeling more and more that we aren't supposed to make a big commitment just yet to live here. I don't know if that means God is moving us on soon, or just that it's not time to buy a house. We decided for now to take the money we got off the house in Ozark and finish up Dave Ramsey's baby steps 2 and 3. We are going to pay off our student loans and we will be COMPLETELY out of debt (including the house, although we will not own a home) and then we are going to put the rest in the bank and finish the fully funded emergency fund. Then we will be on to step four, which I can't remember off the top of my head. ;) Been too long since I took the course. Of course, Erick and I are teaching it in two weeks, so we'll get a good refresher. We're going to start putting back money and saving for a house. I don't know when we will be in a position to buy, or where, or what it is we are going to be buying, but if we can save money maybe we can even get one of these foreclosure that we've been trying to get a loan on with cash, and we won't have to worry about appraisers. If that's God's will, of course. There is a quote I found on Phil Vischer's website (the Veggie-Tales guy) and I thought it was great. I've been using it as my e-mail signature for about month. I tried to put it as my sig here but it was too long. It's a good reminder for me, and I need to heed it.

To be a Christian is to give Christ “lordship” of our lives. That’s what it means. He’s Lord, we’re not. And if we’ve given Christ lordship of our lives, where we are in 20 years is, frankly, none of our business. Where we are in 5 years is none of our business. What is our business, is what God has told us to do today, and whether or not we’re doing it. That’s it. --Phil Vischer