Don't argue with the process.

This is what I read this morning in Acts:
"And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me-the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace."
- Acts 20:22-24

This is the reading for April 17th in "Streams in the Desert.":
"If people would only believe they are still in the process of creation, submit to the Maker, allowing Him to handle them as the potter handles clay, and yield themselves in one shining, deliberate action to the turning of His wheel, they would soon find themselves able to welcome every pressure from His hand on them, even if it results in pain. And sometimes they should not only believe, but also have God's purpose in sight: 'bringing many sons to glory' (Heb. 2:10)."
- Streams in the Desert

This is what I read in my preparatory devotions for Club Dust:
"Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you."
- Genesis 12:1

Coincidence?

I've been asking God a lot of questions lately. "Why am I doing this now, God?"
He answered with yesterday's "Streams" reading. The verse was Hebrews 11:8: "By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going." The message: Do not lean as much on the promises as you do on the Promiser.