Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
As Christians we know we should trust in the Lord with all our hearts. But do we really?
We make our financial plans, travel plans, food plans, exercise plans, relationship plans, emotional plans, and so on, but do we confer with God first? Do we lay these strategies out then ask God for His blessing instead?
When God gives us a plan for whatever, He doesn't ask us first how we like the plan. We simply need to take the first steps He gives us and then the next step as it comes. This is real trust because we don't know specifically where He is taking us. We only know He wants us to go, do, say, whatever as part of His plan not ours.
Anytime God tells me to do something nine times out of ten, I say, "Really? You want me to do what?" Anytime He commands me to do something it is never easy, never logical, and sometimes not even pleasant. But He says go do and it always turns out to be more than I can imagine for my good or the good of someone else.
There are times I want to resist because I am either reluctant to trust in His call to do, or I want to make sure He is speaking. Satan is a trickster and he can make ideas seem so enticing or for a greater good, but it is not what God wants me to do. In those times I have done the Gideon move. I throw down a form of a fleece for conformation that He is speaking (Judges 6). If I get confirmation from three different angles I am all in and ready to act. Other times there is no doubt and I am ready to act right away. I have learned when I hesitated or refused to answer His call the consequences was not pleasant like it was with Jonah (Jonah 1 and 2). Immediate obedience is the only way to go and trust that God will not leave or forsake me.
What it is God calling us to do that we are hesitating or refusing to do? What amazing things have we seen because we followed God's will and not our own?
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