So, I missed last
week's blog post – I was busy having my life rearranged.
In just over 30
hours, my life got sent down a path I couldn't have conceived of just
days before and I was heading in a direction I hadn't even been considering. I was compelled to make a decision with dramatic
repercussions in a very short amount of time, so suddenly it
literally took my breath away. Me - making a snap decision! Me –
for whom the physiology of my personality demands that my mind always
take the longest and most circuitous path in processing thoughts and
decisions! Time was both compressed and stretched last week.
But my experience last week also made me
grateful – that I have a life to be rearranged; that I was offered
this opportunity; that the need was laid so clearly before me that
there was no confusion as to the act of service that was required;
that I was available and qualified to fill the need; for the astonishing,
humbling support.
As overwhelming and
sudden as this change of course has been, so has the grace given been
sudden and overwhelming. I happened to be reading Ephesians when
all this was transpiring and in it I found my aim in my new position, the power needed to accomplish it, and my
hope for the whole endeavor.
My aim: “...live
a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely gentle and
humble; be patient, bearing with one another in love.” Eph. 4:1-2
The power: “I
pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may
know...[God's] incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like
the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised
him from the dead....” Eph. 1:18-20
My hope: “Now
to [God] who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be
glory...forever
and ever. Amen.” Eph. 3:20-21
Enough – abundant,
sufficient grace.
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