I drove my truck out this morning to one of my favorite places to just sit and listen to my King: a small frozen farm pond on the edge of our acreage.  The sun hadn’t risen yet, the sky was overcast and the temperature was a balmy twenty-three degrees Fahrenheit … in short, it was cold and dark.   I wasn’t even supposed to be there.  I had an early morning meeting scheduled with a good friend, but he called just before I left the house telling me that he couldn’t make it, so off to the pond I went.  There was this real sense that God wanted to say something to me there. I didn’t know what, but I felt sure that He had cancelled my meeting so I could meet with Him.

As I stopped my truck, and the heater finally started taking some of the bite out of the air, I opened my BlackBerry Bible App and the verse in the middle of the screen spoke louder than any voice ever has.  It spoke of the place that I was at, at the call that God has given me, and of His promise to fulfill that very thing.  I so needed that.  As happens so often in the battle, I was questioning all of it; but now, in the cold, in the dark, He reminded me of His faithfulness in the midst of that fight.

That’s when I looked up.  Out of the window of my cab, in the distance through the trees, a lone light shone.  He spoke again, ‘I am the light in the darkness’.  It’s crazy how often we get so busy and so distracted that we forget to look at the one who longs to show the way, a beacon in the darkness of night.

And that is exactly what our King is inviting us into, an adventure of finding him in the midst of the fog, a life of listening to his voice, and a faith that believes His adjustments in our schedules are for our benefit.

‘Listen to me … the Lord is with you when you are with him.  If you seek him, he will be found by you’ (2 Chronicles 15:2).

To the King,

David