Higher Thoughts, Higher Ways

It's hard to believe all that has happened since my redemption. He called me to Israel and away from my own plans. I did not know how much I did not know about Him and His Spirit. He has taught me so much and how to know more from His Word.

Looking from the outside, someone might have thought that I was dumber than a bag a rocks in my life plan. I have degrees and have neglected the subsequent opportunities to be comfortable on the outside and dead on the inside. After Israel, God brought me back to Cleveland. That is a hard place to do ministry. And in the eyes of global missions, it is not the most alluring place to go or even support. However, God has a different ideas about Cleveland.

Since the time He called me in the fall of 2014, He has slowly but surely formed in me His affections for the lost and difficult to love. This was never my plan for what I thought of as "my life." No, it is so much better. And even now, more than two years later and not a penny richer, I am more alive than I have ever been.

Isaiah 55:8-9
"'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways.’ This is the Lord’s declaration. ‘For as heaven is higher than earth, so My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.’”