Lois Lane: The world doesn't need a savior...
Clark Kent: Listen...
Lois Lane: I don't hear anything.
Clark Kent: I hear everything. You wrote that the world doesn't need a saviour, but every day I hear people crying for one.

"Some people want to live within the sound of chapel bells, but I want to run a mission a yard from the gates of hell." - John Wesley

This is the opening line of a great Steve Camp song...used to bring tears to my eyes every time I heard it...

It is always easier to do what God wants us to do when he tells us directly what he wants done. However, even when the Lord spoke to Moses from the burning bush, Moses argued with God about what God wanted him to do. He had doubts, he had fears, he felt inadequate.

I find it easier to follow God when I have a clear vision of what he wants me to do, when my instructions are understood, and I can see how to get from point A to point B. Have you ever noticed that sometimes God gives us the destination but doesn't clearly give us a roadmap for the journey? I have been pretty sure that I know what God "really" wants me to do for about 12 years. And there has been times when the directions were clear. But true "convergence" has not come.

So, when it feels like you are tending sheep in the wilderness for 40 years, what should you do? When the last clear instructions came seven years ago, what should you do? When you don't really have a clue, what should you do?

Oh, you thought I was going to supply the answers to my own questions? Hardly, these are the issues I am dealing with these days.