Begin with 2 minutes of stillness and silence before God.

In 2011, after working a summer missions camp in Nashville, Kyle and I knew without a doubt God was calling us to move there. We had been married less than a year and were still figuring out “adult life.” We quit our jobs, packed our bags with enough to get us through several weeks and drove to Nashville to stay with a relative until we could get jobs and a place of our own to live.

In 2016, we knew God was calling us back to Mississippi. By the time we moved, I had a job, but Kyle did not. We did at least have a house this time, so we packed that giant moving truck with all that we had and came back to Mississippi. In this move, we left our church where Kyle was the pastor with a ministry and people we loved dearly. I left my teaching job and the students who I adored.

In 2019, I left my job as a school counselor with a steady income to start a business that I knew God had been calling and leading me to for several years. It was definitely not a steady income, but I knew God was leading me to reach families I never would have if I had stayed where I was.

Now, I didn’t list all of these stories for any self-promotion, but to give you some personal examples of how God has clearly given us a command to follow Him - even when it didn’t make a single drop of sense. In every one of these times and others, we have had to answer so many questions about why we were making these crazy decisions. Friends and family often worried that we had absolutely lost our minds and didn’t know what we were doing. But every single time, we knew without a shadow of a doubt that God had called us. And that was really the only answer we could give to the questions we were being asked. We didn’t know the reason or the big picture, we just knew the next step and that we had to be obedient to God’s call.

Peter found himself being hit with questions and having to explain his actions of sharing the Word of God with a Gentile. His answer was simply that God had called him to do so. And my favorite part of his answer was this: “Who was I to think that I could oppose God?” (drops mic and walks away).

When God calls us to something, no matter how big or small, even if it doesn’t make any sense, our answer has to be obedience. People may question us, laugh at us, or criticize us. But who are we to oppose God? He knows the reason. He sees the big picture. He knows the lives that may be changed by our obedience. We don’t have to know all of the answers, we just have to know our God is faithful. Always. When God calls, our answer must be “yes.”

Take 2 minutes to reflect in silence.

Reflections:

• Has there been a time in your life that you were questioned or criticized for obeying God’s call?
  
• Do you trust God’s faithfulness to obey even if it doesn’t make sense and may result in questions or criticism?
• Take some time to pray and allow God to reveal the areas of your life that you have not been trusting Him with. Ask Him to show you why that is and to remind you of all the reasons why you can trust Him.