This movie clip is so fitting to where so many kids of God are in their lives. We have attained all the material possessions that we are "supposed" to have. We have worked hard at getting comfortable lives and then God comes along and asks us to participate in something that will shake our comfortability. He comes to invite us to lay aside what we thought was going to make us happy and He asks us to follow Him. Never is our decision without contemplation and a choosing because He gave us a will. He is such a gentlemen that He asks and then waits for our response.
Up until about 2 years ago, I was listening to many opinions regarding what my life was supposed to look like. You have the pressure of the American dream facing you wherever you go. People buying nicer cars, bigger houses, going on more exotic vacations, striving to make more money, etc. It is everywhere you turn and it can subtly thrust it's views on you and pretty soon you are exhausting yourself trying to keep up with your neighbor. I began hearing a quiet voice in me that drowned the noise of everything else, and I chose to follow it. It led me to end my nice paying comfortable job and politely decline some close friends' advice to stay in what I would call "the system". The only movie that I can best use to describe the "system" is The Matrix. The "matrix" to me is when we are so consumed with the happenings of everyday life that we can't hear God whisper anymore. We can't hear Him when He asks us to sell all and follow Him. We have a difficult time hearing Him when He is asking us to trust Him by leaving our comfort zones. We have a hard time trusting that His ways are truly higher than our ways and our surrender is going to bring the real life...the most authentic life...the life we were meant to live.
The past several weeks have been so amazing to me. I have left many things behind but I am certain that I am doing what He has called me to do. I know it more and more everyday when I have increased fruits of the spirit.
I will have to write more later...when it isn't 11 pm at night.
I must say one more thing before I close my eyes and close this day...My God is so wonderful. This evening I was sitting with a dear friend and it occurred to me that many of the fears that rolled around in my head, just a few short months ago are no longer there. He alone deserves the glory for that!
Goodnight...
