GiDeOn

Life is perpetually changing here.  During my sickness, I missed meetings as a whole BFA staff.  One of the ladies in personnel, who happens to be my friend, got up and made a statement that challenged my perspective.  Within the last two months and throughout the recruiting season many key people in the BFA community have dropped out, found other options, couldn't raise enough support, or just didn't feel like this was what the Lord was leading them towards after they committed.  And now as crunch time approaches, the BFA community is feeling it more than ever.  We are missing English teachers, RAs, Dorm Parents, Discovery teachers, Language teachers....the list goes on and on, but despite all these discouraging episodes she turned our attention to Gideon.  

Last May I went to the prospective site of where Gideon may have brought his men.  He brought his army to this location to be stretched unknowingly by God.  He had already dwindled his army from 10s of thousands to thousands; and at this stream God called him to take one more step of faith and bring it down to sheer hundreds.  In this moment, it was God calling Gideon to let Him have the glory and not himself.  By Gideon clinging to a limited and weak army he had to trust that the Lord would bring the victory, not by his own army's strength.

We, as a BFA community, are, in our own way, experiencing that right now. With so many people not arriving and declining their previous intent...we are just left to hope that the Lord knows what He is doing.  It is a beautifully, difficult thing to do. In the end, it will be FOR HIS GLORY!!!