God has called us to deep East Texas. Over the last eight years or so it has become a #happy-place for us—a place for us to escape, and now it will become a home place.
We are excited because it’s a God-Thing but we are reconciling feelings of leaving home, again. Even Klaire cried when she heard the news. She only did her senior year here but she said, “Rockdale has become my home.” Once a Tiger, always a Tiger.
One of the items I had to load into the moving trailer was an old leather chair that I can’t stand but the Blonde likes it. Therefore we hang onto it. What’s funny is when people come over they instinctively sit in that worn out leather chair. It’s weird.
We are all like that aren’t we? We love what’s comfortable.
In case you didn’t know it, pastors are people too, we bleed when we get poked and we hurt when people say things about us.
If your pastor tells you they have thick-skin they’re lying. There’s no such thing as thick-skin. We fake being perfect and it’s hard. I told you all of that to tell you this:
As this process of being called away was taking place there was a small moment that I wondered what if we just stayed? What if we didn’t move? We call this temptation in my business and when we are tempted to sit and stay in that comfortable place (old leather chair) we have to remember and do the last thing we heard God say.
As I fought the good fight of faith I was reminded that the last thing I heard God say was, “Go to East Texas.” I don’t know about you but I‘d rather be obedient than comfortable.
We call this faithfulness. I read somewhere that without faith you can’t please God (Hebrews 11:6). Go and be a “God-Pleaser,” you can do it, don’t give in.
He told me to tell you that.
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