The Dry Bones

"And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there." Acts 20:22 (NIV)

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I have wanted certainty before obedience, a full map of outcomes before I would agree to take a single step.

When You called without explaining the ending, I hesitated, mistaking my hesitation for wisdom.

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But Paul did not know what waited in Jerusalem. He only knew he was compelled, bound by You to go anyway.

That is a different kind of certainty, not certainty about the outcome, but certainty about the One leading him into it.

I have felt that same compelling, a pull toward something I could not fully explain or justify, and found, afterward, it was exactly where I needed to be.

I called it a hunch.

It was You, binding me to a road I could not yet see the end of.

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Forgive me for demanding to see the ending before I would trust the leading.

You do not always show the outcome.

You ask only that I trust the One who does.

Compelling Spirit, bind me to obedience even when I cannot see where the road ends.

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A Prayer of Thanksgiving

Thank You, Holy Spirit, for compelling me toward things I could not fully explain.

Thank You for certainty about You even without certainty about outcomes.

Bind me to obedience today, regardless of what waits at the end. Amen.

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