A couple of weeks ago I went to a conference entitled, ” A Place Called There” – I only went one night, but from what I heard, the entire conference was absolutely fabulous. Although I didn’t attend the entire conference, I got the message of the theme. It has stayed with me, it resonates in my spirit – because I understand all too well that this is my season! I know where I’ve been – I can appreciate in its’ entirety – the marvelous experience of this past week-end where the Father let me enjoy just a cloud of His glory – but where do I go from there? Where is next? Father, if we go from glory to glory – what’s the next glory? What will take for me to get to it?
Many of us, like the old me, get lost in the details. We want to get out Mapquest, get our GPS, and know the play by play instructions to our destination. When we do that we miss much of the beauty of life – instead of enjoying the day to day of life, we live for the event! Life becomes a labor – instead of a love! Our faith becomes contained in a well formulated -”this is what I want, this is what I am believing for, this is what I will receive.” We limit our Father’s ability to suprise us!
Abraham, living in a pagan land – where religious formulas were the order of the day, one day found the one true God, and that God spoke to him and told him:
1 The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.
2 “I will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”
4 So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there. Genesis 12: 1-4 (NIV)
If we continue reading, we find that this was not Abraham’s final desitnation – in fact he kept going until he came to ” a place called there” – to what seemed like a barren wasteland in a desert place – and yet at this place called there -God fulfillfed the promises offered in the above verse – and He did it” exceedingly and abundantly” over all Abraham could ask or even think!
My prayer is that I will enjoy going to this place “called there” – I confess it’s a little scary beginning a new journey at this stage of my life – but my guide has a track record that gives me confidence that this is going to be a trip out of this world!
Selah,
Maria
I will share a quote from Pastor Jerald January, Sr. that has blessed me. “There” is where you go when “here” has fulfilled its purpose in your life.