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Lord Move or Move Me
I have a few different column ideas that I’ve been working on, but none of them felt just right to use for today. So I decided to just start writing and see what comes up for this week. I was driving to work yesterday and I was getting really frustrated with traffic. I started a new work schedule this week and I was used to not having to deal with traffic since I was working nights. Now I’m driving into work during rush hour so it takes me forever. I was telling a friend of mine that I need to develop my patience again, ha.
I’ve had my reservations about this new schedule that I’m going to be working. I think I’ve complained to just about everyone I talked to about it, ha. There are some pluses and some minuses, but I guess I’ll just have to see how it plays out. For one thing, I think the column will be posted a little bit earlier on Wednesday mornings. You no longer have to sit around waiting all morning long, checking your email every few minutes in great anticipation to see when geno will stop being lazy and post his column, ha. I’m going to try (try being the key word) to get the column up and posted before most of you get to work.
I was a little deflated when I found out that they were going to change my schedule. After all, I’ve been working the graveyard shift for the past six or so years. This new shift is really going to eat up into my time in the evenings and I’m going to have to miss out on a few things (I’ll be working 6pm-3am). I had grown accustomed to the way my life was set up, sleeping during the day and being a vampire/super hero during the night, ha.
Nobody likes change, especially when it flips around your whole life unexpectedly. Change can be a good thing though. Sometimes we need our routines to get twisted around. Sometimes we need to be shaken up and stirred. Sometimes we get too comfortable and complacent and set in our ways and God has to interrupt our ho-hum life.
After I got back from the men’s conference a few weeks ago I was praying and asking God to change me. I was asking Him to do something new in my life. I didn’t want to go back to being the same old geno. I wanted things to be different. There were areas in my life that I needed to work on. There were things I knew I had to do different when I got back home.
I’ve heard people say before, “Be careful what you pray for because God just might answer your prayer.” I’d been kind of stuck in a rut for a long time, so this shift change might just be what I need to get out of it. When I step back and start looking at it, I have to trust that God knows what He’s doing. Sometimes it takes writing a column to calm me down and get me to think about the whole picture, ha.
There’s a song by FFH that says, “Lord, move in the way, that I’ve never seen before. There's a mountain in the way and a lock on the door. I'm drifting away. Waves are crashing on the shore, so Lord move, or move me.”
Sometime we find ourselves waiting on God to move. We look for Him to do a miracle. We wait for Him to open up a door. What He really wants is for us to take that step of faith and move ourselves. He’s already open the door. He’s just waiting for us to walk through it. The miracle is already there. He’s just waiting for us to believe it. You hear people say, “I’m just waiting on God.” The truth is they are too afraid to take that step of faith. Don’t get me wrong, we are to wait on God and trust in Him, but sometimes He requires us to do the moving.
Let that be your prayer this week, “Lord Move, or Move Me.” I know God has been moving me, not only in my job situation, but in a lot of other areas as well. I don’t know what the future holds, but I’m ready to take that next step of faith and become all that God wants me to be. I pray that you are, too. Have a blessed week!
w/muchluv,
geno
WELCOME INTO THE DURAN FAMILY TYNIAH RAYNE!!!
I LOVE MY NEW NIECE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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