Ever driven on a road with no signs? It can be quite unsettling. It is one thing to follow God when you know where you are going. It is quite another thing to follow God when you don’t know where you are going. My family has done both. We followed His guidance to our hometown to plant a church about six years ago. We stepped out in faith and knew where we were headed. Last summer we once again stepped out in faith and resigned from that pastoral role not knowing where we were headed. And we are still on that road. In fact, this “Road w/ No Signs” has been an even greater challenge to our faith. It has pressed us more than we ever dreamed. Our doubts and questions have been at a deeper level than at any other time in our lives.

If you have ever played video games, then you know that they do not come with instructions. You plug in the game, turn on the box, and then you start playing. You learn to play as you play. For those of us who are older, this is nonsense. I remember playing Monopoly ®, and Clue ®. The instructions were on the inside of the box top. We read the instructions and then played the game. But now the game is learned as you play. It’s experiential learning.

So it is that God is giving us instructions as we go along. We don’t have a plan for the future. We’re not strategizing about a new ministry. We don’t really have a clue about anything long-term right now. Sounds foolish doesn’t it? Honestly it does to me. We are simply doing the next thing in front of us. God continues to bring my wife opportunities for her business. I am preaching at a local church on Sunday. Bills are paid. Meals are eaten. And we still don’t know where we are headed. We’re just following with our eyes closed and our faith open.

How does one follow God when no signs indicate a specific destination? I don’t really know right now, but maybe, just maybe one day in the near future, I will be able to put it into words. But as for now, our prayer is still the same as it was in January – “Yes Lord, we are hanging on.”