Today, I was reading through The Cost of Discipleship, by Bonhoeffer and came across this quote from Luther:

"Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend--it must transcend all comprehension.  Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do.  Bewilderment is the true comprehension.  Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.  My comprehension transcends yours.  Thus Abraham went forth from his father and not knowing whether he went..."

This is an enormous encouragement to me today.  As some of you know, my family and I have been on a wild ride, leaving California just over a year ago to go help with a church plant in the foreign land of Idaho, only to return 10 months later.  Still, I do not have a full-time job (as many in our rough economy).  I am blessed to be teaching adjunct at a couple schools, and this helps us stay afloat, but in many ways we have recently felt like we are hanging by a thin thread not knowing where to go or what to do at this point.