Stepping Out

So today was an interesting day. If you've been following my previous posts recently, you can see that i've been trying to serve the Lord and be in His will. Well today, i believe i did God's will. It was actually a rather interesting experience. You see i went out to lunch today, and i went to wild wings. The thing is, i don't like to go out to eat by myself. I feel like a weirdo. I feel like i stand out. I feel like everyone is staring at me thinking look at that loser eating lunch by himself. The interesting thing about eating lunch by myself, though was that it gave me a lot of time to think and i behaved did things that i may not have normally done had i had company.

I have to admit, i felt kinda weird speaking to the waitress, especially when she would keep coming up and asking me if everything was okay and if i needed anything. I know she was doing her job, but it just kinda made me feel uncomfortable. Anyways, as i sat there listening to the drone of random conversations and listening more intensely on my thoughts, i felt something in my heart. It might also have been the flyleaf video that came on in the middle of the country music, but i felt something in my heart. Basically long story short, when i paid my bill, i left a small message on the receipt. It said "God Bless John 3:16 Whosoever".

Now i've never been one to leave notes, messages or thanks, aside from a quick thank you as i leave. Shoot i barely have enough courage to order my food and talk to the server to ask for something as trivial as a refill. But for some reason, today, i felt like God had a message for this waitress. Whether she knows Him or not, or whether she seeks the verse out, i believe that this is the message God wanted me to leave for her. So being the obedient servant that i'm trying to be i stepped out in faith. Granted i practically ran out of the restaurant after i wrote that, i wrote it nonetheless.

I wrote it because i believe in my heart that God wanted me to pass along that message. I have to admit its a strange feeling when you can hear the Lord speaking to you, but it gets easier as it gets quieter. Thats one of the things i noticed. That if you can be still and be quiet you can hear the Lord a lot easier. The other thing that i learned is that if the Lord calls on you to step out in faith, the best thing you can do is take that step.

Stepping out in faith God Bless,

Average James