There is this feeling you get when someone is about to “get got”. It’s hard to explain, but the energy just seems to shift. Sometimes it is just one conversation and you know, they’re about to get cooked. I experienced this phenomenon for the first time with my then boyfriend, now husband, Cade.
It was on a road trip back to the Bay Area after spending a weekend in Orange County with my family. We had been dating for about a year. Within that year, hours were spent with him trying to poke holes in my faith. On this drive though, for the first time, his tone was light. His statements weren’t facts, they were filled with questions. That’s when I knew; It’s only a matter of time until this man gets got. It took about three more months until Cade told me he was committing himself to the Lord. Even knowing it was coming, it was insane.
We recently got to have lunch with two of our best friends while they were in town and I had that same feeling. Our conversation just naturally drifted to church, spirituality, and God. One of our friends was particularly interested because both of his siblings had recently come back to their faith. That’s when I thought: It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but this fool is going to get smoked. Cade and I left our time with them feeling uplifted; It felt like we could have said anything in that conversation and it wouldn’t have mattered much–it was being handled.
I have been so surprised by the joy and relief I have found in that feeling. The idea of discipleship, at one time, felt like an overwhelming burden. I think the truth of it is we hardly have any say in it at all. The pressure, worry, frustration we feel about a person’s growth is really of no consequence to the outcome. Cade and I have both felt a sense of freedom from this realization. We get the privilege of seeing miraculous things happen to people we love, and if they’re going to get got, they will.
“You are my witness,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he…” Isaiah 43:10
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