His Purpose

As I continue to press on to get some order and clarity for all the writing and other things the Lord has for my life, He so gently directs me into the next step and the next.  Even as I get to the end of my current assignment, there is a sense of what is next, praise the Lord!

The next step I’m to work on is to write the vision and make it plain (Habakkuk 2:2).  That requires me to get still before the Lord to find out just what is in His heart for me.  This is apart from my identity, for my identity is blood-bought child of the most high God, ambassador for Christ, etc.  I do not minimize the importance of these things, but they don’t give me a vision with which to run.

As much as I love to write, the Lord spoke to my heart that my purpose is not writing.  It is but a tool He has put into my hands to fulfill my purpose.  His purpose for me – this vision that will be my home base – no matter what tool He gives me to work towards it, is coming to me in puzzle-like pieces, and He will put those pieces together for me as I wait on, lean on, and trust in Him.

I think about you with this whole purpose thing, too.  You know, being a missionary in a foreign land isn’t His purpose for you – merely a tool.  There’s a greater purpose for you.  Do you know what it is?  Have you written it down and made it plain so that those who read it (you) may run with it?

Loving you and expecting to hear great things from you!

Kay

Precious sisters,

I apologize for being so long between posts!  I am finally finished with all the journal transcription work, have finished this month’s Prayer Nuggets (though there is a problem with the workings of the website, and I’m searching for a paid someone to help me get it fixed and get it on the web), and am now ready to find the next “normal” routine – including finally writing the book the Lord gave me to write long ago.

Even in the midst of my busyness, I remember you so frequently, trying to picture what you are doing now, thinking about what time it is where you are, feeling some of the pull in your hearts as you desire to fulfill God’s call for your lives.  I count it a privilege to know you and to pray for you – and for God to let me have even a portion of His heart for you!

What follows is a devotion from Elisabeth Elliot’s book, The Music of His Promises, this one called, I Am Your Salvation.

When we find ourselves in what we think is an intolerable situation – the kind of which we say, “But this can’t go on” – it is tempting to pray that God will get us out of it, stop it somehow, change things, make people do (or not do) something.  Why doesn’t He answer us?  Is He deaf?  Are the heavens brass?  Doesn’t He care?  He hears.  Heaven is open.  He cares.  But He has something much greater in mind.  It would be simple enough, I suppose, for Him to do the thing we demand if He didn’t really care.  But of course this reasoning is silly.  He is working out His design for a universe, for an eternity, and His interest lies in drawing our hearts up and out of the prison of self.  He says to us, “I am your salvation” (Ps. 35:3).  He wants us to see glory, to breathe fresh air, to walk in light, to come to Him for rest.  We can’t do that if He is always getting us out of the very situation He has arranged for us to learn in.

For all those intolerable situations, I pray that this helps you get back into the life of victory as you re-focus on Who He is.  Blessings to you, my dear sisters!