Choices...paths....

Choices...paths ...

We were standing in the kitchen, eating cheese and crackers, when the question was asked, " how did you come to faith in Jesus?" to a CEO of a major  worldwide mission organization...

The answer was surprising to me...he hadn't been raised in a Christian home, hadn't any affiliation with Christians but at 38, he knew he was missing something in his soul...his story was like reading Jesus' temptations, only this man had said yes to each...until one day, he looked out of his pinnacle office and felt empty inside...he cancelled his appointments, drove his BMW to a market place, intent on finding a Bible, found one, took it home and started reading...called an acquaintance whom he knew had changed his life about going to church with him....heard the gospel, plain and simple and within weeks was saved... Left the worldly pinnacles behind and eventually became a missionary to far away places, sharing Jesus with tribesmen  in jungles....moving over the years back into leadership....not the penthouse office, but one which had much more worldwide view- the bringing of Jesus to faraway, obscure places...

He then spoke of being invited to Billy Graham's funeral...the honor of that invitation...sitting there listening to the testimonies of the impact of a man called by God, following that call...simply telling others of Christ and His gift of salvation...

We are each called, chosen...we may be a janitor or a king, a mother of one or a dozen, a father in the public or  obscurity...in the fifth avenue office or the jungles of South America...a blogger...a senior in a senior living home, a craftsman, a teacher...a pastor or a secretary, the patient or the doctor ....one up front or one in the back row....we have a plan or a purpose...a path chosen uniquely for us, not to be compared with another, or jealously copied...

Our question is, "are we following it?"... Do we take time to look back and see how God has worked and is working...do we complain about the path or walk faithfully in it???

Thank YOU....that You are at work in our lives moment by moment ...that you bring glory to yourself...

As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.
Psalm 103:13-14

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us.
With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment —to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,
Ephesians 1:3-11