Risk is a chapter from my family’s story. We sensed a call from GOD to move back to our hometown to plant a church many years ago. Our sons were 8 and 12 years old. We had no guarantees that it would work. However we did have the guarantee that GOD would use this jump in the lives of our sons. We knew that they would not forget the faithfulness and sufficiency of GOD to provide for our every need. We knew it would be a defining moment for them to own their faith for themselves rather than just be a Baptist because their parents were. While this part of our story did not exactly turn out as we had prayed and anticipated, what GOD did in the lives of our sons was more than we had anticipated (and that story is still being written).
Children of destiny are often born to parents of destiny. They live out of a sense of calling, a life that has called them to take risks. It has cost them. They do not just follow the ordinary because they fit in. They have set the pattern and their lives have said to their children, “Following Jesus is not always safe. It can be risky. But don’t let fear control your destiny. Jesus is greater than the unknown.”
Children raised in this environment of faith will not be frightened away from destiny. They will be liberated to hear and obey the voice of Jesus to go to new places and change the world. They will have seen their parents follow Jesus into the unknown, even parents who stumble along the way. They will know what destiny is like because they will have lived in its shadow.
It begs the question for us parents: Are we living GOD’S destiny? Are we living out of a sense of calling? What has it cost us to become what GOD has designed us to become?
Take the risk. Live a life of destiny. Start a generation that will hear the voice of Jesus and follow Him.
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