A Man of God

Sorry I've checked out on blogging for the past couple of months. I haven't been as connected at the hip with my computer lately as I've been in the past, so I'm having to remind myself to update this sucker. Anyway, on to the good stuff.

So I was reading 1 Kings 13 tonight and I got to thinking about the man of God it talks about. I'd recommend that you read 1-10 so that this stuff makes sense. Go ahead, I'll wait.

Good stuff right?

It's always been easy to envision this story going down by God appearing to this guy and telling him to go to the king of Israel and tell him that his enemy's kid is going to grow up and go all ritual sacrifice on him. Don't eat anything or drink anything until you get back and make sure you don't come back the same way.

But now I'm fairly confident that it didn't go down this way, and here's why: he actually did it. I just have a hard time believing that the above sales pitch would really make him giddy to go to the king. God knows how much we can handle and only lets us in on just so much. I think God's a bigger fan of faith than He is information.

I'm thinking the situation probably went down a little more along the lines of God telling this guy to leave town and head towards Israel. When he started to pack some food and water, God told him that he wouldn't be needing any of that. On his journey God provided for this guy who was probably getting pretty stinking hungry by the time he got to his destination and at one point told him, "make sure you come back a different way."

Once he reached his destination, God told him to head towards the palace and when he reached the doors, told him what he needed to say. After God had been providing for him for his trip to the king and having seen first hand how faithful God is, it probably wasn't as hard to say those things to the king.

Here's what pumps me up about that story (as accurate as it might or might not be): I think I'm on the same path. All I know as of right now is that I feel led to head to Europe for a month. I'm not sure why and, to be honest, I'm not even 100% sure where yet. It pumps me up to think about the fact that God might have something so huge in store for me that if He told me right now, there's no way I'd do it. He just might have something so big in front of me that He's got to take me around the world to prepare me for it or even to bring me to it. It's so exciting to think about the fact that I might be in the same position that someone who was only known as a man of God was once in.