Trusting God to Get You Through by Jason Crabb

Author:Jason Crabb [Crabb, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Trust in God - Christianity, Religion, Christian Life, Inspirational, Crabb; Jason
ISBN: 9781616381745
Publisher: Charisma House
Published: 2011-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

THE MOLDING PROCESS

After years on the road, I am still astounded by the fact that God planted His dream in my heart. It’s like I said in the Introduction: I never had to wonder or question why I was here. I was born to sing, and for years that was all I needed to know on the subject.

My earliest memory of fulfilling that dream goes back to when I was just two years old. God knows that I had not been walking long, yet I was ready to sing at the Church of Philadelphia in Horse Branch, Kentucky! My dad stood me up on the altar with my little acoustic guitar, and as he played his own guitar, I sang an old song entitled “Who Is the Lord Our God?”

As I look back at those days, I see how God was molding me and preparing me to do what I am doing now. It is hard to fathom the perfection involved in the plan of God. I remember singing as a child and experiencing His presence as I sang. Not only was He there, but He was also involved in my singing of the song. It goes to show just how receptive children are to the things of God!

The memory of His presence on that day is, for me, a reminder that I have been on His track all along, even before I could have fully understood it. I could not have predicted (and still can’t predict) exactly where the path will take me or what the cost will be along the way.

Not even the patriarchs of the Bible knew all that God was calling them to do. Imagine what went on in Abram’s mind when God said, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you” (Gen. 12:1). God didn’t say, “ … the land I have shown you”; He said, “ … the land I will show you.”

God told Abram to pack up his family and head out to an undisclosed location. That’s a tall order. It is one thing to move on; it is another to hit the road without a destination in mind. Yet that is what God asked, and He did it so Abram could achieve the fullness of his destiny.

Obeying God even when you do not understand is the essence of the walk of faith and an important element in the molding process. It is also enough to ruffle your feathers. God’s request had to have pushed Abram to the outer limits of his understanding. Abram faced what Sue Monk Kidd calls a crisis in her book When the Heart Waits. The crisis she speaks of is not a random event; it is a divine appointment designed to lead us somewhere in particular. A crisis of this kind is a “holy summons to cross a threshold. It involves both a leaving behind and a stepping forward, a separation and an opportunity.”1 When it is recognized, a holy summons strengthens your faith.

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