Fork in the road

Part of our new church plant is a 24/7 prayer room called the "Boiler Room". It's called the boiler room because we believe that if we can get people praying in Vernon 24/7, things will start happening in the community for God, just like it is the boiler room which makes big boats and steam trains move. Anyway, I am going to share about my experience in the boiler room yesterday.

I am reading through a book, 'Enjoy the Silence', that teaches me how to do 'lectio divina' exercises. For those who don't know what lectio divina is, it is an exercise in which you read a portion of scripture through a few times and after every time you stop and reflect on what God is trying to say to you. It is truly amazing. I have only tried it twice and I find that for the first few minutes I'm really tuned in, but after I sit for 5 - 10 minutes (you're supposed to try for approx. 20 minutes to sit in silence) my mind starts wandering. It's definately a difficult excercise when you think of how busy we all are in this busy world today.

Yesterday I was doing an exercise and it was a scripture from Jeremiah that was talking about signs in our lives. This book has questions that you are to reflect on after you've read the passage a couple of times. One question was to close your eyes and imagine that you are driving down the road of life. What signs do you see? So I sat there for a few minutes pondering this questions. Finally a sign popped into my mind. It was a 'fork in the road' sign. One way pointed to God's way in life and the other pointed to my way in life. As I was approaching this fork in the road, there was another sign that said, 'God's way leads to eternal life; your way leads to nothingness'. I viewed these signs as a reminder that I am to constantly be living my life for Christ. To trust Him in every decision that I make. I'm at a stage in life when I'm always wondering 'what will God have me do with my life? for a career? where will my family and I end up? I really got the strong sense that God was reminding me to just trust Him daily. Don't worry about what I'll be doing in the future. God has a plan for each day of mine, and I need to trust Him to get me through each day.