“Tired of me yet?” my wife asks.
She smiles…
“We’ve been together a long time, you know…”
My mind goes back…
Back to a time when I faced a decision…
The title of an old rock song sums it up…
“Should I stay or should I go?”
I’d been offered a new job in a new city.
My current job was at a big company in a big city…
A company well known by the public…
A company respected in its industry.
The new job was at a company no one had ever heard of, in a small city I had trouble finding on the map.
But it was more responsibility and more money.
Should I stay or should I go?
Was it a good career move?
What did God want?
I didn’t have a clue.
I took a step in faith…
And accepted the job.
Everyone I met from the new town asked the same question…
“Are you married?”
“No,” I’d say, holding up an empty ring finger.
“Don’t worry,” they’d reply. “You’ll meet the right person here.”
I wasn’t exactly looking for “the right person”…
But I’d been in town about a month when I met her.
Six months later I proposed…
Six months after that, we married…
Thirty eight years later…
One daughter….
And two grandchildren later…
My wife smiles, looks at me and says, “Thirty-eight years! Tired of me yet?””
My answer is far too mushy to repeat.
Right now, you’re probably saying, “God did want you to move to that new city!”
I believe He did.
I believe God wanted me to move to that new city so I could meet my wife…
So He could give me the great gift of earthly love.
But there’s more…
Through our marriage, God has changed us both.
We’ve grown over the years…
Grown closer to each other…
And closer to God…
Maybe spiritual growth is the real gift God gives us when we take a step in faith…
A step without knowing where it will lead.
Because Faith never knows…
Faith never sees the future…
Or it is not faith.
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. Hebrews 11:1
