#wcgls - I'm one of 'those people' now

Back at the beginning of August I attended Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit for two days of leadership building, fantastic speakers and I came away with so much.

One of the speakers, Jeff Manion spoke about this "Land Between" concept where we're in this barren wasteland between where we were (Egypt) and where God wants us (Israel). You see in Egypt, we were slaves and this guy, Mosses came along and God, through Mosses, set us free. We should have been happy, but in the dessert, we're getting tired of this Manna stuff and we really want to go back to Egypt where at least there was meet. Yeah, we're promised this great place but for now, I'm burned out and need something.

Now, I hate those people who go to a conference and come back and go "this is what I learned! LISTEN TO ME!! I KNOW STUFF!"

Now I'm one of those people... but I don't care...

I won't get into details but I feel like I'm there, in that land in between Egypt and the Promised Land and I'm going "I'm sick of Manna, I want meat!"

I've been doing a lot of praying lately, mostly Mosses plea in Numbers 11:11-14 “the burden is too heavy for me.”

I'm still in this place where I'm not sure what direction I'm going, but a lot has just happened in the last few days, but what got me in this direction today was a Tweet from kdsrock, a friend of mine in Lynchburg, VA.

"Is your spiritual identity found in your spiritual past? Isaiah 43:18-19" then followed by "Our greatest moments with god and people are right NOW, so be inspired by past wins and learn from past sins, but live right NOW!"

I did want anyone in my situation would do, I looked up Isaiah 43:18-19 - Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

I saw it immediately: I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland - God has been at work, giving me more than manna, but water to drink from, like from the Nile. Comfort, a reminder that I may be in he desert, unable to carry my burden but God will provide what I need, on His time and when He shuts a door, he opens ten others.

Grace and Peace,
Jesse