My Travel Agent for the Journey

July 5, 2009

It's been a awhile! I have really been seeking the Lord this week. Checking in with Him, to see what He wants written. So my notes have been quiet this week, I apologize for that.To say that this journey has been about reevaluating my life is an understatement. I turned 50 a year and a half ago, and although I don't feel 50 or in my case a little older, the fact is now I am in my fifties!I am very blessed to be in good health, and I think I feel better than I did than when I was in my thirties. So to me, it's just a number. Sometimes. I do feel the crunch of the clock ticking away and there are many God given dreams that I have yet to experience. Chene' Tucker did an excellent teaching at our church on a Sunday morning 2 years ago. She equated our lives like a 24 hour period and she said she was approaching 3:30 to 4:00pm. Still some daylight left, but most of the afternoon was spent. It was a sobering thought, and left quite an impression on me. I was fast approaching the supper hour! It's a good thing I am a night owl!The big idea in the teaching was to make our lives count for something, to leave a legacy. We will ALL leave some sort of legacy, but what will it be? I believe if we know Jesus and continue to live for Him, we want our legacy to leave a mark for the next generation to follow. To follow Jesus!All we can ever leave our children is the Lord. I want my children and my grandchildren to be disciples of Jesus. I pray they are worldchangers, turning the world right side up for Jesus! My God given dreams may be for my children and for their children. The inheritance I pray for and dream about may be for them. And I'm ok with that, because it is my heart's desire. The big reevaluation is still taking place, I am becoming free. I am beginning to care about what He cares about. The orphan and the fatherless are at the center of His heart. And I have been humbled and blessed that He has asked me to be a part of what I believe He is doing. Churches are beginning to to get a clue, we are His answer to the hungry, the naked , the lonely. We are supposed to represent Him and to be Jesus with skin on. It's time we were about our Father's business.The Holy Spirit, my Travel Agent through this life, has been traveling through my heart and blazing quite a trail. I love the treasures that He is revealing and leaving. He is an Agent of God's love. The residual is a Holy material, life changing stuff!!In Oct. of 2008, we had our annual women's conference. I was in the mode of praying and lining up all the details for the conference, and I remembered the week of the conference to ask for confirmation about our little girl.The weekend was almost over and I was the last person Chene' prayed for, after a long weekend of ministry. The first thing out of her mouth was, "Children of the World", and she proceeded to say alot more. More about mothering and nurturing. You know how it is when you realize you know why you were created? Well, that's what that moment was like. I immediately felt a confidence and a comfort in what God had been doing in my life.Everything suddenly became clear and made sense! The vision has come into view because God has come more into view! He is asking us to do something significant for the orphan. To house the orphan, to love the orphan, to parent the orphan, because essentially that is what He has done for us!I believe the Lord is asking the church to become more glorious, in these last days. The only way we can do that is to actually make a difference in lives for eternity. Not with our programs, not with our polished church services, not with the latest cool movement, not with building our kingdoms, but with building His kingdom. I have been challenged by my Travel Agent to take the road less traveled, to take His road.