Who Broke The Path?

I was presented with this question/statement the other day that keeps rattling around in my head. You know when things just hit differently and it takes you a few days to process how you feel and make sense of the response you mount to it.

I was updating a friend about all the moving pieces with manufacturing the treatment for Drake and Vivian, all the amazing pieces and ropes that have begun to pull together to create this massive initiative. Developing a curative, life altering, first of its kind, new treatment for a disease that has never had anything like this before in its history....and just how surreal it was to watch God hold it all together.

After those conversations ended and we took a minute to just be encourage the next natural question came..."What about the fundraising? Where are we?"

$861,352.00 raised in 6 months. Almost to the 1 Million Dollar mark in six months from a no name foundation in the middle of a small town. It truly has been a God movement to get the funding we have raised. Ask any foundation, any rare disease community, any patient funded inititive....it truly is miraculous.

But then the comment...."Goodness...you sure are slowing down now...you have a ways to go, don't you?"

Uhhhh...

You see, I am not offended by the comment, I can see where our human thoughts flood in, but I have to offer a challenge to all of us. This is the human nature we have to fight against. Our own human nature that loves to hit the complacency button and turn into a passenger along for the ride now.

I wanted to return that question with an even more important question. "Have you donated since the dinner to make sure we are moving faster? Who have you brought to help us push this forward? Where is your urgency? Where is your drive?" Not out of disrespect and definitely not out of trying to cause harm but as a challenge to fellow brother and sisters in Christ.

So often I see and hear the woes of Christians that look at situations in their life, situations that they clearly have been called to step into, and they fold their arms and even worse are blinded by the fact that "THEY are the next stone God is calling to be laid to continue to the path forward."

Friends, why do you think God has given you the talents and resources and sound mind He has and brought you to this very place in time? Why has He allowed you to know and love Drake and Vivian, and the fire that burns inside of you when you desperately cry out for relief from their suffering when you read another post about a horrific seizure breaking their little bones.

My biggest fear, the things that keep me up at night...is not that God won't bring healing to my children. I have already laid that at His feet, and I know that on this side of heaven or on His side, Drake and Vivian will be free of this disease.

My biggest fear, what I see lived out daily, is the God fearing people Father brings to us...will sometimes be content standing right beside us...watching for the miracle to happen....waiting for God to do the impossible...but yet miss it...because they never knew that THEY were the miracle God brought to us. They never stepped forward and laid their stone, and now so many others will not be able to lay their stone because the road was broken at their feet.

And even worse...they look at the broken path and they shake their head and say, "Gosh, I really thought God was going to do it this time....shame, because they were so close to making it."

Please hear from my heart. Stop waiting for God to create a miracle in your life and start being the miracle He has called you to be in others.

Step into the path...get on your hands and knees and fight forward with us. Lay your stone, lay a second one, and a third one if that is what He is calling you to do. Stay close and encourage the other stone layers near you, pray over the storms coming, and for the love of the Lord...encourage your brother and sisters to stop being bystanders when God is directly calling them to be blessings.

We have one life to live here, one chance to make a difference, one opportunity to walk in a way worthy to be called His children. Stop blending in with a lost world who just watches as the world sinks and complains about how slowly it is going down.

You were created for more than this.

Lay your stone and watch how God multiplies it around you and in your own life.

The stage is set, the project is in full go, every detail has been planned...the difference between us making it and not making it to end is just the dollars left.

The way we raised the funding before is you donated, you got involved. You talked to people about the project, you brought others to the mission.

YOU were the difference then.

Be the difference Now.