About a year and a half ago, through a mutual friend, I met this girl at church who was visiting from out of state – a very far away state. It was her first time in Atlanta. She stood in front on me and told me how she thought she was supposed to move to Atlanta and work at this place. We talked a little more and I thought she was crazy -because I happen to know the process of how people got jobs at the place she wanted to work. And let’s just say it doesn’t start with not knowing anyone and moving from another state.

So, I gave her the only advice I could. I told her what I knew to be true in my life. Rooted right in Psalm 119:105 – Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. I particularly like the King James translation because it’s the same used in an old Amy Grant / Michael W Smith song. 90’s Christian kid here.

These words have rung truer and truer for me over the last several years. The word of God is revealing. It is living and active. Moving and breathing. The surest thing I know. But it’s a lamp and a lamp shines a circle of light right around its center. It doesn’t say “thy word is a flood light shining miles down the path”. No, just a lamp, with enough light for your 2 feet to take the next step God has asked you to take.

So, that’s pretty much what I told her. Take the next steps God’s given you eyes to see and just keep on taking the next step. If He’s telling you to move, move. Then listen for the next thing and see where that takes you.

Well, 2 months later, she was living in Atlanta. And she kept doing the next thing God asked her to do. And you know what? A year later, she’s just started working part time at the place she said a year ago she felt like she was supposed to be.

I learned a really important lesson from this girl and its this: When you are listening to the voice of God in your life, sometimes other people who are also walking with God can think you’re nuts. And that’s ok, so don’t be afraid of that. There are a ton of examples of this in scripture, especially in the Old Testament – Daniel in the lion’s den, Noah building the ark before there was rain, David on a mission to kill Goliath, and on and on and on.

Following God’s direction for you life might not always look like the most logical thing. But if there’s anything I’ve learned in life, it’s that GRACE is anything but logical.

He is the Wind.