What is your strength? Is your family your strength? Is your iron will your strength? Is your works your strength? Should God call you, would you follow Him and leave all behind? We never know where or how God will call us? All we can do is wait on Him and trust Him.
Years ago, the Lord worked a beautiful miracle in my life! I was in heaven, although I was here in this world. I won't describe it, at least not now, and I tell you of it, just to affirm that God "called" me. For what? I don't know. But I have seen the changes He has made in my life and in me. Because I didn't understand, I destroyed everything I had that represented that "time." I walked away. If God truly meant for everything I saw to be, He would bring it to happen.
Life became a sacrifice of material things...the children married and left, my husband is gone, my home is gone. Now, whatever we have will come from the Lord and I trust He will fullfill our needs. Since I sold our family home, I have known the blessing of wonderful children, that have opened their homes and lives to me. If I had not gone into their homes, I would have missed the most wonderful blessings of knowing them and the grandchildren. I thank God for them, and for every door He opens.
In the Bible, we are told Noah's descendants, after the Flood, were all together and were one people. They began to build a tower that would reach the heavens. As one people, they were powerful and were going to be mighty. But the Lord knew the intentions of their hearts and He came down and confused their languages, separating the people according to their language. So began all the nations of the earth.
So shall it be with us. We leave our comfort zone, and our treasures and follow the Lord. His blessings are greater than any possession we might be clinging to.
Genesis 11 The Tower of Babel
1 Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. 4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
