“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
Mary could have
questioned why God had chosen her and not someone who was already married.
Abraham certainly
could have questioned the Lords’ request of him to offer his only son Isaac.
Gideon might have had just a little doubt
about God’s military prowess when He reduced Gideon’s army from thirty thousand
men to three hundred.
Noah, Joseph,
Daniel, David; each of them and many, many
more had moments –
no they had extended seasons – of their lives when God’s instructions to them
or the path He was
clearly leading them down simply made no sense at all.
At least not to
them!
I suspect maybe
you have had those times too.
God is taking you
to a place or requiring something of you that just doesn’t seem to fit the plan
of your life.
So what do you do?
Do what each of
the Patriarchs did.
They trusted God even
when it didn’t add up to them.
“But God please,
can’t I skip the lion’s den?”
“After all, If you’re
going to protect me anyway, why do I have to even go in?”
But in Daniel went.
He had an out – he
just chose not to take it.
It is without a
doubt much easier for me to write the words “Trust God” than to live it out in
my own life; just as it would be for you.
There are no
shortcuts to growing in our faith.
The times when God
doesn’t make sense visit every one of us.
We can move forward
in trust or retreat in fear.
We must choose.
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