One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land

by Priscilla Shirer

So it would be inappropriate and limiting for anyone to define God solely on what they’ve learned in one setting, and yet this is precisely what I had unknowingly done. So when the complacency settled in, and I immediately tried thinking of how to deal with this matter at “home,” for the first time in my life I found myself bumping up against the sides of that box. Suddenly part of me wasn’t so sure that trying to fight this feeling was worth the risk. I didn’t know what the Lord would require of me for this complacency to be removed; and, honestly, as the pastor’s daughter, I felt too many eyes were pointed my direction as I tried figuring out how to tear it off and reach for new life. Others might misunderstand. People might lose respect for me. I might just end up making myself look foolish or be too uncomfortable to go where God might lead. But as God orchestrated my meeting with other believers whose views of Him were in many ways different from mine, I felt compelled to explore what they were bringing to the table. Unfamiliar? Yes. Unusual? Sometimes.