With my soles to the ground, You open the sea.

It's time for me to be entirely transparent with you. I'm terrified. I'm terrified of not knowing where my feet are going to land step after step. This city is a big place for a little person. Boston was beautiful, clean, comforting, and homey. Los Angeles is not. However, it's not that I don't like it so far, because I do. It's the uncertainty that it holds that is terrifying.

Today, I got to go to Mosaic, which is a church that I've wanted to go to for months now. They were started by my favorite Christian author, Erwin McManus who travels and speaks and does all kinds of important things, so naturally, I knew he wasn't going to be at the service to speak this morning-But I was wrong. :)

After a sweet 25 or so minutes of worship, the speaker came up from the left side of the auditorium, and it was him. I was stoked. We talked to someone after the service, and apparently he's committed to be there for a lot of Sundays, but that's irrelevant. Mosaic is on a new series, called "Fresh Start". Today's passage was Joshua chapter 3. After reading the passage, we looked at the very beginning of the book, where God tells Joshua that Moses is dead, and it is now his job to lead the people. In verse 3 God tells Joshua that He will give him every place where he sets his foot. These two variables became Erwin's two points. Firstly, after the Lord tells Joshua Moses is dead, He asks him to lead. Ergo, a very terrified Joshua. Secondly, Joshua was to then live a life of faith and obedience to the Lord, and he would be given wherever he placed his foot. Another point of the message (verse 5). What would life be like if we lived life, knowing that in every step we took, tomorrow God would do amazing things among us...

So anyways, I say all of this because every word that was said this morning was something that I had already thought of and tried to deal with this week. I know that in this area of my life, God is going to show me a side of faith, and my relationship with Him, that I haven't seen or experienced yet. And yea, I'm scared-I'm in a new city with no friends, no family, no place to live (currently), and God is calling me to be a leader in a secular environment. I'm just a little overwhelmed, but the Lord has put all of this in my life for a reason, and the book of Joshua at a perfect time.

Joshua 1:9. Have I not commanded you? Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.

LoveYouBunches.

Anna