79: He Has a Plan

In this episode, I read an excerpt from Hunting Hope:

“The speed of my answer surprised me when someone recently asked, “What’s next for you?”

“Obedience,” I answered. “That’s always what’s next for me.” Maybe I have finally learned that any other plan won’t work.

Obedience is my plan.

Obedience was the plan for most of the tide-changers in the Bible. This year I made a little project of marking certain themes in the Bible with certain colors. I am a sucker for school supplies, especially supplies in coordinatedcolors. It has crossed my mind that one reason I became apublic school English teacher was to have a valid excuse to

buy new school supplies every fall.

Newly armed with a set of highlighters in eight colors

and a set of matching page tabs, I set out to annotate what

I read in the Bible each morning. I marked passages that related

to teaching. I marked passages that related to speaking

and writing. I marked passages that related to handling adversity.

And I marked passages that related to bearing fruit.

Immediately I realized that I also needed to highlight

all of the passages that related to obedience, because there

were many. I didn’t mark the places that just mentioned

the word obedience; rather, I marked the fantastic and miraculous

stories that came about only because someone had

obeyed.

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