Resting in the Resting Place (The House Part 3)

You know, I’ve decided that we choose rest or we choose unrest.

We choose peace or we choose our flesh.

But WE choose.  God gives us that choice.

In all that has been going on with the possibility of us moving I am remembering there have been very clear instructions from God.

1.  He unsettled me and had me begin to look at property around our area.  No great desire on my part to move.  I was acting out of obedience to what I felt him prompting me to do.

2.  He lead me to a house close by that is more than we can afford at present and one I normally would not have looked at.

3.  He told me to take a friend over with me to tell me how to fix something I did not like about the house. 

And while we were there I felt we were supposed to pray over the house and land.  I felt He impressed upon my greatly to pray against the people who then had a contract on the house.  He told me to offer a price without the contingency that our house sell.  Now don’t think we’ve got some big stash of squidola somewhere just waiting.  We don’t.

4.  I wrestled with that one.  But we made the offer. They countered.  And we rejected the counter offer.  Eventually our original offer and what I felt God had told me was accepted.

5.  He then gave me specific scripture out of Joshua ch1 telling me not to be scared and to be strong and to be courageous.

6.  He gave me the peace to list our house with our realtor.  That was done Saturday night.

7.  He gave me more scripture from Deutoronomy telling me to stand firm and not to stray from what He had given me.  It was sword yielding time!

Now, there hasn’t been another step given.  No specific mortgage lender.  No windfall.

I’m to rest.  I’m to choose rest.  I am to wait on him.  I am to obey.  All these are my choices.  Rest or unrest?  Obedience or disobedience?  Do I wait on Him or do I go and try to add to what He has told me?  Do I venture out in the cold on my own or stay under his protective wing.

In the years I’ve been a Christian I’ve learned that God is a God of the process, not the conclusion of the process.  It’s about what I learn each day as I walk it out with Him.  It’s how I rest in the last thing he told me, how I sit there until He tells me to move.  And it’s about the struggle to get back to the place of rest when I choose unrest.

This wonderful new house the Lord is leading us to is His.  It’s not ours or the people who presently own it.  It’s the Lord’s.  He will have to provide the money as well as everything else it takes to live in that house.  He wants the house used for His glory.  And we have the choice to be obedient to walk into our promised land.  And to tell our children what God has done for us.

One thing that has been so heavy on my heart through this whole process is that I never want to be the kind of Christian that will follow my God into the pain but not into the blessing.  I’m not sure if it’s my personality that feels the blessing is undeserved or if it’s just the fallen side of man.  But to me walking into the blessing has been harder and scarier than walking through the pain with Him.  I feel so unworthy.  Why, I ask myself?  Why, would He choose me?

Some people may think this house is about the job God has given my husband or the money he makes.  They may think it’s about wise savings and all that.  NOPE.  This house is about God’s choice to give his children something.  This house must be from God for His use or we do not want it.

Pray that I continue to rest in His grace and provision just for today.  This truly is just about HIM and what He is teaching us.  The house is just the tool He is using.

Always His…….Julie

"Now then, you and all these people , get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to you.  I will give you every place where you set your foot, as promised to Moses.  vs3
"As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.  ‘Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them. vs5-6
"Be strong and very courageous.  vs7
"Be strong and courageous.  Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you WHEREVER you go." vs9