This does not mean that the past has no significance in the new chapter, but that its role is celebrated and liberated from the endless cycle of collapse.
Take the Israelite's entering the Promised Land. The miraculous Exodus from the land of Egypt, with its slavery ad oppression should have been a quick journey. But instead, it was filled with rebellion and shortsightedness. They had seen the LORD deliver them from Egypt with all that entailed. They could look each day that the visible manifestation of the LORD's presence in the pillar of cloud and fire. They could see His provision of food and water. They could see all this, but they still tried to run the show their own way.
Eventually, those who were younger than 21 at the time of the Exodus were standing ready to enter the promise after wandering for forty years in the wilderness. They could have closed the book on rebellion and opened a new chapter on obedience. But they didn't. Oh how history would have been different if they had fully obeyed.
What would be different about your history if you had obeyed at those key moments?
We have another adventure starting soon in our lives. We have a mission call to spend a number of months in another country serving those who wear the uniform and their families. It will mean time away from our family here where we live, and time in a temporary setting, among people we don't know, doing work that has eternal consequences.
We need your prayers. We need your financial support, no matter how small. We stand ready to walk into the next chapter. Will you join with us?
If you would like to join us, please go to Cadence.org.
Thanks in advance.
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