Lead Us Lord (Dream Again)

For Christmas, Gord and Glenda Mosher gave me the CD ‘Today’ by Brian Doerksen. I already knew this was a wonderful CD, but it had a nostalgic element to it because it was always playing the church santuary when we first arrived in Lloydminster. (If you’re reading Tanys, here’s another album that has a memory attached to it!) It reminded me of the summer past – our first days in Lloyd and the visit of the team from England that came to Lloydminster and then having to say goodbye to them all. As such, although I loved the CD, I didn’t dare listen to it as I feared it might make me feel too nostalgic in a saddened sort of way – you may think me strange or soppy, but that’s just me! Finally, a few weeks ago, I dared to put it on and it was just what I needed with us seeking God about what happens next when we return to Morpeth. Do we return to Lloyd again or settle back in England? What do we do wherever we end up?

The following song from the album really stirred and inspired my heart and continues to do so as we seek to follow Him, even though the path ahead is still dark at the moment. Thanks Gord and Glenda.

If you are in or coming up to a place of decision at the moment, I hope the following is of as much encouragement to you as it is to me.

Lead Us Lord (Dream Again)
Brian Doerksen
(c) 2004 Integrity’s Hosanna! Music/ASCAP

Here we stand
At a crossroads again
Like You said
In time the seasons change

Looking back
We recall the blessing and the pain
But now we turn our hearts toward
What is still to come
We want to dream again

Lead us Lord
Into a life of fruitfulness
Prepare our hearts to risk again
As we trust
Taking simple steps of obedience
We know that you will lead us Lord

The final three lines are what I keep returning to most of all. “As we trust, taking simple steps of obedience, we know that you will lead us Lord.” We may not see where we are going, but as we simply obey the Lord step by step, trusting Him, we know that He will indeed lead us on.

Despite the temptations to do otherwise I am trying to not make any further decisions or predictions about what we are doing until we return to Morpeth which is when we believe God will truly start to make things clear.

Proverbs 3:5-6 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make you paths straight / He will direct your paths.” This is the truth that I am hanging onto, that He will direct our steps as we carry on in simple trust and obedience to Him.

Bless you,
Steve