Every once in a while, you find yourself in a conversation in which you realize that no one is nearly as interested in your thoughts, ideas and theories as you are. You suddenly realize that you are the only one talking, or at least the only one listening. While you have been parading through descriptive words and conjectures, your audience has moved on.
    I can’t remember the specific passage of scripture, but for some reason I want to say it was about Hezekiah. There was a time he felt that God pulled away from him. He was involved, engaged and committed, and all of a sudden God stopped speaking. He was stretching his faith. Then again with Gideon (I’m positive this one was Gideon). God sized down his army from 32,000 men to 10,000 …but as many of you know, he didn’t stop there. He finally let him go to battle with some 300 soldiers against an army that the Bible describes as being like "a plague of locusts" to the Israelites. But then right before battle and before discussing the best method of attack and before telling him what he should do next…

    God was silent.

    …no wisdom… no encouragement… no guidance… just silence.

    I am at a crossroads. God has called me outside of my level of comfortability and now I have to grab hold of it…or I have to let it pass. I know can’t stay where I am and go where God wants me to go. God has given me all of the information I need. He has given me the tools to make a decision. But He isn’t making it for me.
    In the book Chasing Daylight, it’s referred to as the "second dimension of faith." For Joshua, the second dimension was going INTO the Jordan River before the waters parted, as opposed to standing on the shore and waiting for the path to clear before moving to action, as Moses was able to do.
    I doubt that I will be parting the waters and crossing the Illinois River this year. I am fairly certain that I won’t go into battle against an imposing army like the Midianites. But I see two things very clearly. God is taking a breath in this conversation between He and I and He is waiting for me to respond, and that means I will be walking by faith and not by sight.