"My Lord knows the way through the wilderness. All I have to do is follow."
It's the simplest complicated thing we'll ever and never learn. I work with a lot of students in ministry, many of whom are nearing their college years. I get a lot of questions about how I knew DCC was the place, how I knew Lauren was the one for me, how I came to be at Compass. I tend to stray away from the "I hear a voice" conversations, because it does nothing for the student who has yet to hear that voice. If all they have to look forward to is a voice that may or may not come, waiting turns to idleness, turns to laziness, turns to waste, turns to regret, turns to anger, and turns away from the very thing for which they were waiting.
Dr. Rife encouraged us to be open to what God has for us. He didn't tell us to go to Africa. He didn't tell us to become preachers. He told us to be open. I tell students, "Wherever you go, make disciples." God can use someone who loves him in the inner city of Dallas, in the African bush, in the Siberian wilderness, and in the riches of upper-class suburbia. I'm ready to go where God leads me, and wherever that ends up being, I'll make disciples.
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