It’s been a very long time since I’ve posted a Five-Minute-Friday post. Today, I wanted to, and today I could. Lisa-Jo Baker is still the faithful, gracious host after all these years. There is a whole community of writers that join come together to write for 5 minutes, and bravely share. Here’s mine, tonight.

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We need to know when God changes the course of our life and follow Him and it’s not always the same time or way as everyone else or even your closest friends.

We can sense it before it’s time. We can feel the subtle changes begin to happen. A gentle turning here and a whisper to go there, signs leading up to it, until it’s time to choose.

I stood at the fork in the road. I’ve come to three I can name in my journey with God, this being the third. Each time I’m faced with a choice that is all my own to make. Each time I know I have to weigh the cost. Because each time God is asking me to choose.

I look down one road, and I see the way a little clearer than the other. It’s predicable and not much different from the course I’m already on. I see success, or at least a success I can measure. And, it’s safe.

But somehow I know this is the lesser way. It takes less bravery. I give-up less, and yet I gain less.

And I hear God say, “You can choose to continue on this way. But I want you to choose the other.”

And I look down the other road, and the way isn’t as clear. I cannot see more than a couple of steps ahead. Success isn’t predictable or even measurable. And it doesn’t feel safe.

Yet, I know this is the greater way. I know it will cost me. I know it will take greater faith and my sight to won’t work for it. It will require courage and greater surrender.

But, He’s calling me. And when I choose to lose my life for His sake I’ll find it. I know, because I have God’s word on it. And whatever I give up when I choose to follow Him, is never really loss when it’s Him I gain.