What do you do when God's instructions don't make sense?

Hebrews 11:7 "By faith Noah, being warned by God of things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark..."

Have you ever had God tell you to do something that just didn't make sense? That's when life gets more exciting and the adventure begins.

In June of 1992 God sent me to Russia as part of a team of educators and Christian volunteers. The Soviet Union was dissolving and the head of the Russian education department had asked for Christian educators to help them introduce a morals & ethics based curriculum into their schools. God also directed me to take a suitcase loaded with antibiotics (for which I had no prescriptions) to a missionary friend in Moscow.

That didn't make sense. It was dangerous and,if the drugs were discovered, it could have put the entire mission at risk . Nonetheless, with the permission of the trip leader, I went ahead with the plan. Miraculously, God honored our faith. Upon arrival at the Moscow airport, we were put in a single file line, at the front of which was a soldier, opening and inspecting everyone's luggage. My friends and I were praying hard!! Of the 90+ people in our group, mine were the only suitcases not opened and searched God certainly stretched my faith that day!

Usually these faith-stretching tests are not as dramatic as Noah's ark-building or my "drug-smuggling". It might be God asking us to give something we think we need to someone who needs it more. It might be taking time we don't have to help someone who is helpless. It always takes us beyond our comfort zone. It often times seems to go against logic. It requires us to step into the unknown.

God knows that in order to become more like Jesus, we have to become less dependent on what's comfortable and safe, and more willing to step into the "risky" realm of faith. Thank God that He lets me take "baby steps!"