Wednesday night’s meeting with the guys was interesting. Some issues were raised that have the power to bring some much-needed change to our church. Nothing new, really. Same stuff I’ve been ranting about to my poor wife every Sunday for ten years, except it looks like God is stirring the hearts of others to hunger for more out of the church experience--enough discomfort and frustration, hopefully, to get us to discuss it and be open to the responsibilities lasting change must bring. But more about that later.
After the meeting, Joel K came up to me to tell me he thought the Lord had given him a message intended for me. In a nutshell he said he believed God said that He’s going to bring me into a job that I like, that provides for my family, and that allows me to move more in my ministry. It was encouraging because it was another voice saying, “The season you’re in is just that--a season.” Which resonates with me. A couple weeks ago, I was killing myself in the heat, staring at a massive wall of Pepsi 12-packs I needed to unload, praying, and I suddenly thought, “When God moves me on, I’m going to miss this time.” I’ll probably look back on this period of my life as one of the sweetest, even though it’s been hard.
In January, Pepsi officials told us their goal for drivers was an average of 450 cases and 14 stops for a day’s load in summertime. Ten or eleven hour day. Yesterday I had 27 stops, 500 cases. It took fourteen hours before the truck was empty. Back at the plant, I glanced at the load sheet for today: 566 cases.
I was so delirious when I finally clocked out last night at 8 P.M. I’d been up late on Wednesday for the men’s group, so I was really looking forward to some rest. But when I got to my car, the right rear tire was flat.
Funny thing, though. In spite of the process, I was joyful. I was just conscious of God’s closeness all day yesterday, and nothing I encountered really riled me--not even having to change a tire at the point of greatest weariness.
For the second night in a row, I didn’t get to sleep last night until 10:30. I just have to make it through today and then I can rest a little. I am striving to enter God’s rest.
There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. Hebrews 4:9-11
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