Do not be afraid
to go down to Egypt,
for there
I will make you
into a great nation.
I Myself will go down
with you to Egypt...
Genesis 46. 3-4
(Sometimes God guides us
to unusual, unlikely,
strange places
and odd situations
that we never would have
chosen on our own.
But He promises
to go with us
for His deeper purposes.
The for there
may even be right here.
We need not know why,
but just to be faithful
in the doing.
God is forming something new
in us
and His glory gets all over it.
And someday, we just might realize
"Oh, so that's why!")
O LORD,
Help us to be sensitive
and responsive
to Your leading,
even to foreign lands,
even on our familiar
patch of ground.
Please aid us
not just to see this place
with new eyes,
but to trust You
with a different heart.
Wherever we are,
You bring Your glory to it.
Wherever we are,
You abide with us there.
Dissolve our fear of the unknown,
knowing that it is
not unknown to You.
You turn our questions
into exclamation points!
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