This Is the Way; Walk In It.

The Vacation Bible School theme for next year was announced with the memory verse and although the HCSB will be used and almost the same, I decided I like the NIV a little better and may be using it as a personal motto for awhile as I go through a potentially life-changing decision to move to Costa Rica or not: 

Isaiah 30:21

New International Version (NIV)

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

I wrote it down at the end of this year's VBS but didn't look at it until just now, the afternoon after a worship service at First Baptist Nashville that also spoke to me about my decision-making process. Pastor Frank looked at how God cared for Elijah in his depression in I Kings 19:1-10. God told him to rest and eat and He would lead Elijah in what to do next. That is what I am trying to do with an idea that will seem crazy or impractical to some, but is following my heart. So,

God, I'm resting and eating and waiting for some indication about what you want me to do with such a life-altering decision. So tell me God if "This is the way; walk in it." 

Follow my decision-making process on another blog Costa Rica Decision Process 

Now the surprise for me in worship this morning was the congregational singing of a hymn I had never heard before (Thanks to Mark Edwards!) titled "Sometimes A Light Surprises" by William Cowper in the 1700's and it too spoke to me in my new time of big decision-making. The lyrics: 

Sometimes a light surprises, The Christian while he sings 

It is the Lord who rises, with healing in His wings

When comforts are declining, He grants the soul again

A season of clear shining, to cheer is after rain

In holy contemplation, we sweetly then pursue

The theme of God’s salvation, and find it ever new

Set free from present sorrow, we cheerfully can say

Let the unknown tomorrow, Bring with it what it may

Tomorrow can bring us nothing, But He will bear us through

Who gives the lilies clothing, Will clothe His people too

Beneath the spreading heavens, No creature but is fed

And He who feeds the ravens, Will give His children bread

Though vine nor fig-tree neither,

Their wonted fruit should bear

Though all the fields should wither,

Nor flocks or herds be there

Yet God the same abiding, His praise shall tune my voice

For while in Him confiding, I cannot but rejoice!

For while in Him confiding, I cannot but rejoice!

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