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Living in God space

I just got this great email from Floyd McClung. “God space” is real to me, and it was genuine for the man who first introduced me to the term. Dr. Bob, as he was called, was dying of leukemia. He was on his last missionary journey, just a few weeks away from death. D…
By Seth Barnes
By Seth Barnes

I just got this great email from Floyd McClung.

“God space” is real to me, and it was genuine for
the man who first introduced me to the term. Dr. Bob, as he was called, was dying
of leukemia. He was on his last missionary journey, just a few weeks away from
death.

Dr Bob checked himself out of Cedar-Sinai
Hospital in Los
Angeles, bought an around-the-world ticket, and was saying goodbye
as he made it from one mission-post to another in Asia, India, the Middle East and Europe.
We were one of his last stops on the last lap of his life’s journey.

Dr Bob sat in a wheel chair, depleted of energy, as he
challenged us to live in God Space. “When you get to the end of yourself,
the end of your resources and your abilities, then you enter God Space,”
he said to Sally and me. He was frail, but he was still feisty. He was at the
end, but death did not impress him and fear did not hold him.

“Faith doesn’t begin until you have to have God come
through for you, Floyd.” His gaze was steady. He then turned to Sally.
“You don’t need faith for what you can do, Sally, you need faith for what
you cannot do. Then you are living in God Space.”

He explained the term further. “God space is living
between the end of your resources and abilities and what God wants you to do
for Him. That’s God space.”

At the time we were trusting God to buy the former Salvation
Army headquarters in the heart of Amsterdam
for an outreach and training center. We were entering God space big time and
needed those words of encouragement. A few months later, a friend of Dr Bob’s
sent a large gift to encourage us. It was the down payment we needed to buy the
building. It was sent in memory of Dr Bob Pierce, founder of World Vision and
Samaritan’s Purse. More importantly to us, our friend. And mentor.

What challenge are you facing? There is a space, a dimension
of life, where you have to have God come through for you to make it, to
experience God’s grace. I encourage you go there voluntarily. Live there. Rest
there. Wait there.

God space is where God loves to come through for us, to meet
us in very personal and life-altering ways. It may be in the valley of the
shadow, and it may be on a spiritual high… God space does not mean we always
get what we want, but it does mean God will be with us.

Dr Bob died of leukemia
– but he did so in the presence of the Lord, living in that realm of life that
meant trusting God for grace to live victoriously. Dr Bob was not perfect, but
he lived with passion and zest for the purposes of God. You can as well – if
you live in God Space.

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