I Don’t Know – I Just Don’t Know…
“We need to realize that when leading there will be many times when we will not know all the answers. It is in those times when our team looks to us to lead them that we take our focus off what we don’t know and move on what we do know. Keep in mind, Jesus’ example was not one of a cavalier spirit, it was one of prayer and one focused on his father and one where he did not try to hide the fact that he did not know all the answers. So we should never go willy nilly into any decision or try to act like we know all the answers when we don’t. Every decision needs to be made via prayer and prior, God given, wisdom.” – Shane Duffey
I thought this incredibly appropriate as I struggle through some of the demands of being a church plant pastor in the middle of a 2.5 million dollar building project, with a church of 40 people, time and budget over runs, and doubts that creep in… What is God doing here? Would He put us through all of this just to have it fall apart in the end? Or is He just positioning us so that He can do something God sized and miraculous? I hope and pray that is the case!
Psalm 66:5 Come and see what God has done,
how awesome his works in man’s behalf!
6 He turned the sea into dry land,
they passed through the waters on foot—
come, let us rejoice in him.
16 Come and listen, all you who fear God;
let me tell you what he has done for me.
17 I cried out to him with my mouth;
his praise was on my tongue.
This will be our prayer through the next few weeks and months, as He has to be the one to bring all of this together…
