Hi, my name
is Shelley and this blog is about relying on the grace of God. My husband and I
have been relying on grace for the last five years and they have been the best
years of our lives.
In July of
2013, we followed our hearts and packed up all we had to move from our home in
Colorado to a small town in Texas that we felt God was calling us to. This was
not a spur of the moment decision, we thought long and hard about it and we had
several conversations with God because we had a good thing going in Colorado.
We had family, friends, good jobs and a beautiful home. Life was good, and the
unknown can be scary. Honestly the more conversations that I had with God about
it, the more excited I was to start our adventure. We had several garage sales
to down size (because we had a lot of stuff) and we sold our house. We bought a
large RV to live in and a truck to pull it, packed up our belongings and hit
the road. Now this was scary and exciting all at the same time, I continued to
seek reassurance from God that we were doing the right thing and He continued
to give me little signs that all would be okay.
Now, I have family
that live in our destination so it’s not like we were moving to a place that we
knew no one, but it was not a place that I would say that I really looked
forward to living, not because of the people but because of how small the town is
and the distance you have to drive to get to a big city. With that said, we
felt called to go so we went with no jobs and no clue as to what we were to do.
We decided the first step was to plug into a local church. We went to a church
that my family attended and visited a few others. After a couple months we
settled in a church and that is when we started to find out why God had called
us to this small town.
You see, I
would have loved it if God had showed us the whole plan before we moved but He
didn’t. We had so many people ask us what we were going to do, and we had to answer,
“we don’t know”. I’m sure our friends
and family thought we had lost our minds. We heard things like, “they will be
back”, “how are you going to live?”, and “what are you going to do?” but we
knew what God had told us and could not explain it all because we didn’t know
it all. It definitely takes courage to
step out in faith especially when you don’t know how the story is going to play
out, but we know the one who knows. For
encouragement, God led me to what He said to Abram.
Now the Lord
said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, and from your relatives and from
your father’s house, to the land which I will show you; and I will make you a
great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall
be a blessing; and I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you
I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” Genesis 12:1-3
NASB
This
direction from God to Abram is very vague. He doesn’t tell him where he is
going or what he will be doing but to go. One thing that God does tell him is
that He will take care of him when he goes. I don’t know about you but to me
this is an awesome deal! I get to go on an adventure and I know that I will be
taken care of by God, all I have to do is follow His lead, to have full
reliance on grace.
