“God loves us, this I know, for the Bible tells me so!” Isn’t this part of a song that we sang as children? Times were so much easier then, as a young child, when we didn’t question and demand from God that He gives us what we wanted. We just automatically knew that He loved us as children and we never demanded or questioned His judgement. I have found that it’s so much harder as adults for us to obey God.
Why do you think that is?
I think that I know (at least for me anyway). We think that we think that we know about how we want everything to go in our life and so we begin to demand for God to “do this or do that” for us. God loves us, but He chooses to answer some prayers with a “Yes!” and then sometimes it’s a “No.” or, even harder, sometimes it’s a “Not right now, but soon.”
God’s timing is not ours. I’m learning that the hard way. It’s not easy to sit in obedience for an answer when He says that it is, “Not right now, but soon.” The waiting is killing me!!!!! Patience is a virtue that I am certainly lacking in right now. But then…… I start thinking back to the different times in my life when I was in a valley (Related post: Traversing the hills and valleys of life with grace ) and I can now see what I couldn’t see then. God had given me what I needed, but I was too blinded by my own inner turmoil, that I couldn’t see it then. It is only now, in retrospect, that I see it more clearly. He brought me to the hills of accomplishment from the valley of despair-each and every time!
God doesn’t want blind obedience. He want us to trust Him to guide us down the right path. He wants our “Yes!” to His “Not right now, but soon.” He wants us to trust that His answer will cover all of our needs and we do this by learning to Let Go and Let God (Related post: Why are we sometimes so resistant to change? ). He wants us to see “the why” we needed to go through that change that we were so resistant to in the first place. Our obedience to Him, is a very small price to pay for what we can get in return. So, are you willing to try it with me?
So, what did I learn from this? Obedience is hard, especially because I like to think that I know my own mind. I really don’t. Actually, I am learning so much more about myself and my faith than I ever thought that I knew. I’m continually growing in my journey. Isn’t that what life is about? In finding my strength and dignity, I am growing and this will help me be able to laugh at the days to come. I’ve still got a long way to go, though. God’s not done with me yet! Thank goodness!!!
What can you gain from this? The hardest thing we can do is to Let Go and Let God. When you give a qualified “Yes!” to God, then you are telling Him that you trust Him to do the very best for you and to put you on that right path that you didn’t even know that you needed to be on. You won’t understand the whole reason behind it now, but don’t worry, you will.
A Joyful Mission 