Leaving Borderland- Take 2

I can't believe that I am reviving this old blog that I quit last time I was here in Hong Kong. If I knew that when I quit writing this blog, that the next time I would post an entry would be right back here in Hong Kong I probably would have begged God to come up with a different plan for my life.

I remember loving my title "Leaving Borderland". It spoke so much to what was going on in my heart and the longing that I had inside to follow the spirit's leading. What I didn't know is that I would be entering one of the hardest months of my life and that the next 2 years would bear this very blog title "Leaving Borderland". I had no idea that the Holy Spirit was about to transform my life and that time and time again he would ask me to leave my little land, position myself at the border, and walk humbly with him into a whole new world.

For me "Leaving Borderland" means that I surrender to the Holy Spirit's leading to a life of sanctification...a willingness to change.

An openess to be totally transformed from one person to another. To have my life totally rearranged and put back together in a foreign land. Only to discover that any previous way of making life work, no longer exists; That this new land has only one mode of operation if I hope to survive. To thrive here means that I must not only know in my head that Jesus Christ is my source for life but I have to bank everything, every part of me on the fact that he is who he says he is, that he will be the sustaining power of my life.

If I am to live in this new land and not just visit then my whole life must embrace him. My whole life (not just parts of it) must speak loudly and clearly that He alone is and will be my portion because if he is not my portion then there is nothing left for me. I left it all back in borderland. This new land demands that He be my portion. For without Him, there is no me. I left myself there as well, hoping that something new would come out of this. Something that makes you want to leave your borderland to experience the life changing power of a God that is to good to leave us the same.

So for this space I commit the writings of the many borderlands that I will be asked to leave. The fears of moving into a new land. The longings to be back in what's familiar. The joys of the journey. The weariness of my travels. And most importantly I want to share with you the One who called me out from my first borderland. The land of darkness and brought me into the light of His glorious Son.

To you Jesus Christ....you move me. Time and time again...you move me.
Thank you. It's in you that I move and have my being.