Chapter 3 - Where You Lead Me I Will Follow
This amazing testimony of God's provision and guidance is one of those stories that make you stop and marvel. I know that it is our human nature to try to figure out a way to deny it as supernatural, we say "oh, that is just a coincidence." Or "Well, they just got lucky!". But I truly believe that God loves us, and if we are obedient to the things He ask of us, that He will bless us. Many times we miss out on God's blessing because we are too busy doing our own thing, to stop and listen to what He is asking or telling us.
One of the stories that really spoke to me, was the story of Jack working on the plumbing under the kitchen sink, when he felt like God was telling him to stop what he was doing and go buy and attach a water hose to the hot water heater, for emergency use, just in case there were ever a fire. It would have been so easy to say, "oh, that's a great idea, but I'm a little busy at the moment, I think I'll take care of that as soon as I'm done here." But Jack didn't do that, he stopped what he was doing and did as God told him to do. Because of his obedience, when a brush fire went out of control and headed directly for the house, just minutes later, Jack was prepared to fight the fire and protect his family and their new home.
God wants to provide for us, He wants to protect us, and bless us, but when we are not willing to listen to and obey God's leading, we miss out on much of what God is wanting to do in our lives. John chapter 5 tells us the story of the crippled man sitting by the pool of Bethesda, when the Spirit of God caused the water to stir, the first person to touch the water would be healed of their disease. Jesus saw this man sitting by the pool, and asked him why he did not get in the water. The man replied that in all the years he had been sitting there trying to get in whenever the water was stirred, he could not find anyone who would help him into the water, and by the time he got there it was too late. So Jesus tells the man to pick up his bed and walk. And the man immediately took up his bed and was healed. I don't know about you, but I am sure there were many thoughts that went through this man's mind. "Sure, take up my bed and walk, like it is really that easy!?!?" Or "What? You want me to what?" It would have been very easy for this man to listen to the thoughts full of doubt and disbelief, but He chose to have faith, to believe and to be obedient...his life was changed in an instant because he listened, believed and obeyed the words of Jesus.
