God, You're Calling Me Higher

 

I wrote this on a sticky note and placed it in my journal some time in the year 2018.

And here's the deal.

 

There's such truth in this one single statement.

 

I remember a few years back my husband and I loved to take car rides in the evenings, just slowly touring the countryside of our hometown.

 

Pretty routinely we would pass one house that's construction appeared to have come to a complete halt.

It was a gorgeous 2 story home that once had all the promise of being a residence for a large family one day, but mid-construction... something happened.

 

And that house sat desolate for many years following.

 

As weeds began to encircle the foundation, we grieved what, "might have been."

 

We never found out what happened exactly. Our guess was a financial issue arose, and the would-be homeowners simply couldn't afford to finish it.

 

In fact, come to think of it, I don't know what ever became of that sprawling country home on several acres, as we have since moved away from the area. But God brings it back to my memory often... and I still wonder what happened all these years later.

 

Some times we circle around the same mountains like those stubborn Israelites.

Some times we stay locked in our mess. Entangled with sin. Trapped in disappointment.

 

And, friends, there's good news for that.

 

God is a Redeemer.

He is full of grace.

And He pursues those He calls His children.

 

And He finds us in our mess... in our mistakes... in our uncertainties... in our doubt... and He rescues us from that place.

 

But He is absolutely not comfortable to leave us there.

 

In you, He longs to finish what He started.

 

So I don't know who needs to hear this.

 

I don't know in what season of suffering you find yourself in today.

 

Just know this... He leaves room error.

But He is calling us higher.

 

There's so much more He has for you.

So. Much. More.

 

Will you allow Him access to complete the construction that is your life?