Then God told me to write what was on my heart about the gay and lesbian community in my post Rainbows. I argued with Him about that too. I don't like to write controversial things. I don't like to rock the boat. I like things to be simple and easy. But again, He kept pressing me so I decided to write it and I was nervous the whole time writing it. After I wrote it I was angry at God for making me write a post that was so out of my comfort zone and I just couldn't bring myself to write anything else for a while. I didn't even log onto the blogger screen to check on things for months. Well, when I finally did get back onto my blogger screen and started looking around I realized that God apparently had a plan with that little post because Rainbows ended up getting the most hits out of all my posts. And not just by a little, either, like 400% more than my other posts. Someone even posted a link to it in an atheist forum which is where it received most of the hits. I think that is so crazy because that post had the most Bible verses than any of my other posts! So apparently I struck a nerve with that one! Praise God! His word made it into places where it may not have otherwise gone and I hope that every single person who read it was able to get to know Jesus in a new and personal way. I am saying all this to tell how awesome God is because I know that all this was not because of me. If it would have been up to me, I would never even have started the blog in the first place.
God's plans are not our plans! I read the story of Gideon to my kids from the book of Judges a couple of weeks ago and it really resonated with me. All Gideon wanted was to bake bread for his family, but God had a much bigger plan for him! God used Gideon to lead an army of 300 men to conquer 3 entire nations. When a person joins the US armed forces, it is not an easy life. First there is boot camp where they go through intense training, then they go to war and have to sometimes live in horrible conditions and go through things they have never dreamed of doing. But even with all the hardship, if they follow their general's orders they will achieve so much more it their lives. Way more than if they had never joined in the first place. If this is true in a natural army, how much more is this a truth in God's army? With Gideon, God equipped him after he was called. In fact, Gideon was very unprepared for a battle. He was pretty much a nobody in the nation of Israel. When God told him his plan for the nation, Gideon argued with God and told Him that he had the wrong guy. Gideon was the smallest man in his family and his family was the smallest in the nation. Not only that, Gideon had such a small plan for his life: Grind wheat for his family without the Midianites taking it. That is all Gideon wanted to do. But God had so much more in store for him. God took a small man from a small family with a small plan and just like a tiny seed grows into a might tree, Gideon became a huge part of God's story in the Bible. Gideon obeyed God and ended up leading an army to defeat the Midianites and eventually became the leader of Israel. I think I really related to Gideon because I argued with God about my blog and I know that having a lot of people read a little blog is nothing compared to defeating 3 nations with 300 men like Gideon, but I like the idea that God can use a nobody like me, like Gideon, to do something big when we obey Him. What is God telling YOU to do? Go do it!!
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