{"id":180,"date":"2020-08-04T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/?p=180"},"modified":"2020-08-04T16:42:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:42:19","slug":"answer-gods-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/answer-gods-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Answer God\u2019s call"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\"><strong>John 15:16 <\/strong>\u201cYou did not choose me, but I chose you\nand appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should\nabide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Let me tell you a story. I remember is was late fall. I remember that because it was dark early and as I walked from the MARTA station to my destination it was cold. Not the crisp northern cold, but a Georgia winter wet cold. The type that crawls under your jacket and digs into your bones. I was late meeting a friend that I hadn\u2019t seen in a while. Walking head down against the wind, I walked across the court yard exiting the station and just vaguely remember seeing a shadow of a man. The voice in my head said \u201cstop\u201d. It seemed loud and real enough that I came to a halt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">I now looked at the man standing in the cold. He had on a\ntrench coat, but it didn\u2019t look warm. He stood looking into the air, moving\nleft, then right. He seemed uncertain as to what he needed to do next. I\u2019m late\nI said to myself and started to move on. All I heard was \u201cTo the least of\nthese\u2026\u201d nothing more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">God doesn&#8217;t yell or intimidate, He reminds us of both the great privilege it is to know Him and the great joy we can receive by obeying Him. It wasn\u2019t a command or even a request. It was just a quiet voice of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">I looked at the man\u2019s face. This was the first time I actually saw him. You know if you avoid eye contact it\u2019s not really real. His eyes were sad and pain filled. There were a lot of years in those young eyes. He knew disappointment, they were traveling buddies. He had lost something important, and he was at a lost as to what to do. I knew to speak to him was to take on his burden. Once I knew, I couldn\u2019t turn back. Reluctantly I asked \u201cCan I help you?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">God is an incredibly loving God. He is amazing. This man\u2019s\nneed was everything to him. It was insurmountable in his circumstances. But to\nhim it was just another hard day on earth. To me it was simple. I gave him what\nI had and it was more than enough. He stood erect, shook my hand with a thanks and\na nod. But his eye gave it away. Relief and surrender. I started to walk away\nbut I stopped. I turned and said \u201cYou know, God really loves you, that is why I\nam here now.\u201d He smiled and said \u201cYes sir, I truly know that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Answer God\u2019s call folks. Be that person. I don\u2019t have words\nthat can accurately paint the picture of how it will change your life forever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">There are big things that God will just nag us over. He will\nplant the seed. He\u2019ll water and fertilize it. He will come back over and over\nto prune it. He just won\u2019t let it go. Those things we eventually come around to\nacknowledging. They\u2019re BHAG\u2019s (Big Harry Aggressive Goals). They take time and\nenergy and planning, but they are worth it in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">What I love, and crave, are the whispered moments when God\nhas a single opportunity to share. It is like God says \u201cTomme, see that\nrainbow?\u201d \u201cLook it\u2019s over there.\u201d And when I turn, it takes my breath away. I\nstand in awe. These are the rocks in my memorial. I pick each one up and\nremember a time when He loved me so much he asked me to be in His plan for\nsomeone else. The stones are the BHAG\u2019s that I could have never accomplished\nwithout Him. The rocks are his way of telling me how much He loves me for the\nlittle thing that make life worth living. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be that person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of a stranger, a dark night, and a moment of decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[12,11,9],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation","category-stones","tag-christian","tag-happiness","tag-purpose"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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