Today my family and I will pack up a 26 foot Uhaul truck and begin the journey to move to Colorado Springs.
I can hear it now. Some of you may be thinking “Last week you wrote that you had a hard time breathing at the Colorado elevation and now you’re moving there? Are you taking stupid pills?”
When God points us in a direction, it doesn’t always get easier. The warfare may ratchet up and circumstances may get tougher. Remember how God started Isaiah and Paul off in ministry… “Go talk to a people who won’t listen” (Isaiah 6), and “I will show him (Paul) how much he will suffer” (Acts 9:16).
When we’re going against the grain of God’s will there is usually an internal struggle that doesn’t go away and gets more intense as times goes on. There is no peace. We start making justifications and try to talk ourselves into believing the action we want to take is of God. We either surrender and let it go or we continue on in a state of internal turmoil and misery.
There hasn’t been any of that with this move.
The process began May of this year when I visited Colorado and started feeling the burn to go back. After talking about it and praying with my wife and family, we decided to move forward, one step at a time. Houses in the Phoenix market are taking around 90 days to sell. We sold our house in 35 days. My wife got a job and is already working there. We could point to other ways God has showed up and continued to open the door.
There has also been plenty of opposition; everything from a minor car accident to a bunch of crazy surrounding the move. When I visited Colorado last May I had no more breathing problems there than I do in Arizona. That trip last week the breathing was pretty rough. Trials and warfare are often a sign that we’re on the right track, that is, unless we’re in sin or willful disobedience and we’ve opened ourselves up to it.
This weekend we move our family to Colorado, then next week two of us fly back to Arizona and we move the office. If everything goes right we should be done with both moves by December 10.
Prayer is appreciated.