Tuesday, August 19, 2008

When can't becomes gonna

If you would've asked me six months ago where we'd be today, I'm not sure what I would've said. But I do know what I wouldn't have said: "Here."

For 7 1/2 years, God has burned in our hearts & minds that He wants to use CLC to save lost people, then train & equip them to reach multitudes of other lost people here in New Orleans. At the same time, however, we have had a sober concern that if God started sending them, we weren't ready to handle them.

If I was going to describe my overall attitude about it in one word it would be this one...

Can't.

But something happened last week.

As I was praying about some of the final details of our growth process, it hit me: "We're not only ready now... We're gonna do it!"

This went past being just a casual change of perspective or some fit of wishful thinking... This realization--there's a better way to put it--this revelation just hit me in the gut & consumed every bit of me!

In one moment... In one breath... That "Can't" I'd been feeling for so long became "Gonna!"

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