It sure is easy to lose heart, isn’t it … to have the air let out of your balloon, to allow the rain on your parade to shape your entire day … maybe even your life?  I kinda had one of those weeks last week.  Things were actually looking up, encouraging even.  I had received a number of invitations to speak and the presence and ministry of the Holy Spirit in the midst of those engagements was wonderful.  Book sales were up as well and I had received a couple of surprise email from old acquaintances with encouragement and support for what we are doing at Knight Vision. 

But then, of course, the rain came.  Another publisher turned down my latest book proposal, a grant that we applied for was denied, and a couple of ministry and business partners felt God leading them in a direction different from their involvement with us right now.  None of those were really that large of a surprise, and in fact, it was encouraging to see God directing the lives of those that I walk with; but in my flesh, it felt like a hemorrhage and before I knew it, there was this sensation of life slowly being suffocated, a resignation of sorts. 

Of course, it really wasn’t.  Nothing in the call that God has on my life was changed.  All that had really happened was that a number of ‘random’ events happened in close enough succession that I had not had the time to evaluate them objectively.  The truth is that my place in God’s Kingdom has absolutely nothing to do with how others respond to either me or to God, or in how I respond to them, but rather is centered solely around my response to Him.

And so my response is to go on, to continue to walk with Him, in the rain; to repent of my selfishness that demands others recognize my value, and to just enjoy the stroll. Hope to see you on the path, and don’t forget your umbrella.  

To the King,

David