[Tuesday's Devotional] - The Rock that is Higher than I

As I shared yesterday, I have been 'hanging on in there' at work waiting for the Lord to say I could move. Last November, like David, I heard 'the sound of a going' in the tops of the Mulberry Tree (2 Samuel 5:24 – KJV). God gave me the green light to GO! At present I am still there but I am pushing a door the Lord has recently put before me. If I could have written my perfect job description, this is it, outreach, hospitality, administration and service, these passions I have voluntarily shared since the Lord began his work in me. The job description specifies the applicant must be a 'committed' Christian - I'm sure many friends who know me think I should be 'committed'! (but for the grace of God 16 years ago I would have been).

Chris and I have been looking to downsize our home so that I could afford to leave my current job, not that we have a large house by any means, but again on the house move, God had been saying WAIT!

For someone impatient like me 'Wait' is an instruction I have great difficulty with! However the foolhardy option of forging ahead in my own strength, as I have in years gone by, I have learnt to be costly, painful and a very long way round to what God has planned.

I believe the last 2 years have taught me a lesson in waiting. Through the madness and overwhelming busy schedule of my current job He has led me to the rock that is higher than I.  During my lunchtimes down by the riverside I have regularly cried prayers of help - an appropriate place to lay down my burdens!

"Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.  From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.  For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy" Psalm 61:1-3 [KJV]

I thought he was never going to answer but last November, as the wind of change blew, he promised that 2013 would be a year of great change for my husband and me.  God has promised a change of home, a change of job (Glory!) and maybe even a change of church.  On the first two he has spoken quite clearly, on the third we 'wait'.

If your heart is feeling overwhelmed, cry out to the rock that is higher than I:

Hear My Cry Oh Lord – Marvia Providence

Dawn Milward