Some years back, God had led me to take on a new challenge. With that challenge came opportunities for growth personally and professionally. I was so excited!
As I began this journey, I got some information that I found distressing. I became dissatisfied and a bit disheartened. I even became a little bit angry because I knew that God wanted me doing what was before me, and yet this information complicated things.
Have you ever felt like that?
I was on the way to a series of meetings, one of which would be discussing the very thing that was an issue for me. I had tears in my eyes, and I began to pray. I needed to make some decisions before I arrived. God provided an answer by telling me whom I could trust. I’ll have to admit, that was not the answer I was seeking.
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Psalms 18:2
I really did not have an issue with trusting God. But now God had told me to trust a person. At that point in my life, I had issues with the whole trusting people thing. It was only because of how much I trusted God that I was able to obey and really trust that person.
Trusting someone had not been the answer I had been seeking, but as it turned out it was the only one I needed.
First, the issue I had been so upset over came out of my own lack of understanding of the situation. Either it wasn’t explained to me correctly, or I simply misunderstood.
Second, as the meeting unfolded, I found out that I did not have, nor could I have had, all the information I needed to make certain decisions. That person that I placed my trust in took care of things.
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
James 4:2
Ultimately my prayer that morning was that I would be able to do what God wanted me to do in that situation. I thought I saw an obstacle, and I really, really wanted to be able to be obedient.
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
1 John 3:22
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Psalms 27:14
God is always on time. When we ask, sometimes we must wait. My concerns had come up before that meeting, but it was not until that morning that God provided me with an answer.
LIFE APPLICATION
Key Focal Verse:
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10
Today’s challenge is to wait upon the Lord. Walk with Him. Don’t get ahead of Him, and don’t lag behind either.