Should I Stay Or Should I Go

There’s something amusingly ironic in how the two songs for which the ultra-political Clash are remembered both have as their subject… relationships: “Train In Vain” and “Should I Stay Or Should I Go.” Well, there’s also “Rock The Casbah,” but it’s more memorable for its terrific hook and chorus than lyrics. But I digress.

Should I stay or should I go is a question most if not all of us have asked ourselves at different stages of life. A relationship, a job, a residence… what to do. It’s usually a major plus difficult decision, one requiring much thought and for those of us who believe prayer. Easy? Never. But it has to be done.

Bit of focus on the believers, if you don’t mind. One of the great challenges all believers face is attempting to determine where God wants us to go in, or with, our lives. It’s seldom a snap. Not that our Lord goes out of His way to make it so, mind you. Rather, it’s a case of how quite often the answer is revealed in stages, often with substantial amounts of time in-between moments of revelation. At the time we don’t know why. We don’t know why we don’t know why. We don’t know why we can’t know why. It’s what it is. Our only options are either railing against it so we can discover what a one-sided proposition arguing with God invariably turns out to be, or rolling with it. The latter is highly recommended.

Part of this is learning where God doesn’t want you to go and/or when He wants you to go no further. I had a moment reminding me of the latter happen big time this evening. There I was at the San Jose Sharks-Anaheim Ducks game quietly minding my own business when during the second intermission one of the names listed on the scoreboard during the “welcome the following groups to tonight’s game” session was Fear The Fin.com.

So?

It’s the Sharks blog for Sports Blog Nation. I started it and ran it for over a year before along with the NASCAR blog I wrote for SBN relinquished the reins, knowing an unmistakable call was pressed on my heart to focus on finishing God’s Not Dead (And Neither Are We) along with developing the modest ministry of this blog. That’s why I left SBN. No other reason.

Did I do the right thing? Absolutely. Do I miss being part of SBN, the absolute finest sports blog network in existence? Oh, you betcha. Did it cause a moment of melancholy when Fear The Fin’s name appeared on the scoreboard and I thought about not being part of it? Certainly. But regret? No. I did what I had been called to do. You don’t regret that. You never regret that.

Faith ofttimes means you don’t know where you’re going. Or why. Or how. Or why you can’t go the way you want to go, or used to go. Or why sometimes it hurts. But you go anyway. Our Lord calls. We respond. He says go. We go. We trust Him no matter what. Because we know, no matter whether He says stay or go, we will follow the One who loves us. Always.