Small Revelations

I love small revelations!

It began with another meeting with Future Teachers For Christ. I left the meeting so encouraged. There's something about being able to talk about my "field" with other Christians in the field that makes me think that this was SO God's idea. There were just a few of us, less than a handful. But a testimony was shared, thoughts & desires were expressed, and words of encouragement were offered.

Aside from encouragement, I came away from that meeting with one other thing: a keen awareness of how young I am! By that I mean, how inexperienced and untried, how, where I abound in passion, I need more wisdom. I thought to myself, I am so grateful that God willingly gives wisdom to those who ask for it, cause I'll be asking.

Then, I was stuck with a chunk of time. Class was in an hour. I thought to call a friend, but that didn't work out, so I sat in my car (as odd as I think it is when I walk by someone who is passing the time in their car!) and was broken by God. I'm in the middle of reading The Calvary Road. It was the beginning of the chapter "Cups Running Over" that I read, and Isaiah 35 (in my new ESV Bible :P):

"And a highway shall be there,
and it shall be called the Way of Holiness;
the unclean shall not pass over it.
It shall belong to those who walk on the way;
even if they are fools, they shall not go astray."
(35:8)

And I thought: I am that fool! I know so little, fail so often. I'm in training to teach children, yet I'm the youngest in my family, have never really baby-sat, and don't have children of my own. I know nothing, really.

But "even if they are fools, they shall not go astray." Hallelujah! The Lord has set me on the Highway of Holiness! "No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; they shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there...the wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom"!

And, even in the midst of this revelation, I heard the Lord say, "You call yourself a fool, but I call you precious."

Couple that with the song "Real Love" by Luke Wood playing on my mp3 player, and I was in a beautiful moment of realizing to a greater degree God's love for me.