It is amazing to participate with God in what He is doing.  Keeping your hands out of His handiwork and only doing the part He leads you to do is, in itself, fulfilling.  My daughter’s big day is today!  To man she is being ordained as a pastor in the Nazarene Church.  To God she is telling the world she is ready to complete whatever assignment God will give her in His Kingdom Work.  It is funny looking how man labels and awards what man does and endorses what man is “qualified” to do.  When God calls us into work He does it from the heart level.  We often go through steps man has created for it, but for God’s work to be done in us, He simply wants obedience and a heart willing to say yes to Him as He leads each step of the Way.  More and more of this I can see as I continue my own journey with Him.

Last night the general superintendent of the Nazarene church spoke to the conference attendees for which we were a part due to my daughter’s involvement.  The entire message focused on the need for “workers in the field”.  The harvest is ripe all around us but the shortage of workers makes the harvest seem less ready.  The challenge for us is to be a willing worker in the harvest field God has placed us in.  I so appreciated the message for this is exactly what I see God doing in my own journey.  All my life He has wanted me to ready myself with the willingness to use His and my story as a tool for harvest in the field of hurt and abuse.  All along I thought my role needed to be to hide it so I could “look” worthwhile to do God’s Kingdom Work.  Yet, God has now shown me fully that it is what I was hiding that He wanted in the open for this is exactly what others needed to know.  It was safe to bring their past into the open for God’s Healing Light to penetrate the evil darkness and bring wholeness through His Healing touch.

Tomorrow there will likely not be a message here.  We leave for the airport heading home at about 5 am so I doubt I’ll get to this unless I do it on my phone at the airport.  We’ll see what God wants at that point.