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Isaiah 55:8-9
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways" declares the Lord.
"As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts."

I think of this passage as saying "don't question me, just go!"

Okay, so that is easier said than done...for sure. There are times that I don't want to go, I just want to 'be'. For instance, Adam, the boys and I went to Baja Fresh for lunch today. As we were turning onto a busy road, we saw a woman holding a sign that said "grandmother, raising two grandchildren alone, need help." We could see, by look on her face, that she was laying down her pride to stand on that corner asking for money.
Both Adam and I felt the Lord telling us to give her money, but we were unable to stop in the traffic. It would have been easy to say "oh well, maybe next time", and the truth is, that is what I was thinking. Then Adam said, "we can turn around if you want to". As I started to say no, Isaiah, who was sitting in the car and watching to see what we would do said, "you know, we are supposed to help people."
He is absolutely right! It is so easy to find excuses for why we can't do what we are asked to do. But, these are the small steps we take with the Lord to train for the big steps he may ask of us in the future.
Jeremiah 12:5 says
"If you only train to run with footmen and have become worn out, how can you expect to compete with the horses that are much faster?
If you stumble and fall down in an easy place where peace abounds, how will you do when you are stuck in the wilderness?"

I think it is time to go!