I know that it's new but I feel like I have stepped into the promised land. I feel that I have set a foot in it. When you do that it's not like the an earthquake hits, everyone knows that you have arrived and people climb over themselves to get out of your way.
I feel like I crossed over a river at flood stage; a river that I was called to, beckoned over and invited to step into. The water parted and dried out for me to walk on.
Then the water went back to flood stage behind me.
One of the things that could easily be overlooked in the Torah is that the river went back to flood stage.
In the west we hear "Burn the boats" but sometimes the boats are burned for us.
I have been fired and I have quit. Both resulted in the same thing; no going back.
I feel that when I was invited to cry out to God that I crossed over.
I really did feel a power that I had not experienced for a long time; I was not socially acceptable even though I was behind a closed and locked door. I was not even trying.
My wife had told me that she felt that I should move onto coaching (it was actually about the third time) and I felt that she was right and God had spoken to her.
I looked into it and started to make preparations but my situation had not changed. My sales were still agonizingly flat. I had contacted all that I should contact about getting more product and getting me out of this hole. Most didn't even open the email, some that had been with me for several years told me that they found another, but most were silent.
I was brought to Psalm 107 and it runs in some kind of three act scenario.
Group A is in a desert and wandering; they are hungry and thirsty.
Group B is in prison because they rebelled against God.
Group C is in a tempest at sea. They were doing business and seeing the works of God but a great storm comes; not just any storm but one that God brings. It raises them up the heights and then the depths; it brings them to their wits end.
In all three scenarios the people cry out to God and he hears them; he delivers them.
In all three scenarios they say "Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind."
There are a lot of things to be dug out of this Psalm but what stands out to me is that God wants us to cry out to Him, praise Him in our trials and for him to be glorified before men.