Holley  asked us this week…

What is the biggest risk when dreaming God sized dreams? 

My thoughts have been racing and I keep thinking of Oklahoma and storms. I’m trying to fit it all together.  Sometimes you can’t. But sometimes God leans in close and whispers truth loud and soft at the same time.  He reminded me that storms will always be a part of life. Whether they are F4 tornadoes or marriages failing or cancer. Storms come. But He, remains:

“Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow
Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea
What matter beating wind and tossing billow, if only we are in the boat with thee?
Hold us in quiet through the age long minute, while thou art silent and the wind is shrill,
Can the boat sink, Lord, while thou art in it?
Can the heart faint that waiteth on thy will?”
Amy Carmichael, Towards Jerusalem

The obvious risk to claim with God sized dreams is failure. I have spoken of this before. I can play it safe and small without edging my toes into the dream God has fit for my heart. By doing so, I can avoid much pain. But truthfully, I am still at risk for the storms. Life is stormy friends. It just is.

What my God  sized dream does for me is stir my heart towards the eternal. The hope we have. The Gospel of grace and how I need Him moment by moment. I don’t’ like the idea of living risky. Not one bit. But, lately I’ve come to realize that I like less the idea of hiding in the safe.

He will hold us in quiet in the age long minutes. He has done that a thousands of times in the past year. And when the storms come, He will be with us. He will draw us near.

I am praying for Oklahoma constantly. For the mammas and babies and broken families. I know Jesus is in the boat with them. He is holding them.

I’m still dreaming. I’m trusting God, that to push out to sea with Him in the boat is the place I need to be. There is no safer place.

XO,
Stacey