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I wish I could promise that the journey God has in mind for each of us will always be easy. I can’t. If we search the Bible, we would be hard pressed to find any time where God called someone to something comfortable. Just ask Noah, who had to build an ark with no sign of rain. Just ask Abram and Sarai, who had to leave their home without knowing where God would send them. Just ask Moses, who had to lead a whiny crowd in the wilderness for 40 years. Just ask Joshua, who had to take the whiny children and whiny grandchildren of those whiny people into the promised land and fight to capture the land. Just ask little David, who had to use a stone and slingshot to kill big Goliath. Just ask young Mary, who birthed a savior. Just ask the Jesus, who had to die on a cross for the sins of the world.
The journey may not be comfortable. But we are not alone. We can rest assured that the Lord is beside us every step of the way.
This message is excerpted from “Get up and go” by Tiffany C. Chaney in the September 2016 Café online magazine. Today is Holy Cross Day.