All my doors have closed or are on hold indefinitely. Different duties, better pay, or even different job. It’s been one emotional roller coaster after another. And here I am, after spending some time at church praying for one another, I feel pregnant with possibility.
What’s changed? Nothing on the outside. Just my thinking. Just my expectation. I have decided to agree with the idea that I don’t have to see it coming. God can just open the right door at the right time, and I just have to trust him. I trust him with this blog. I trust him with all my blogs. I trust him with my wife. I trust him with my income.
I don’t have to push until something gives. I have tried that for months and gotten nowhere. One possible reaction is to give up. Another is to stop pushing and start trusting. If God’s will is something akin to a flowing river, then you do better when you surrender to it and allow the current to take you where it wills than to fight against it and end up drowning.
That is my life, in a nutshell: learning to stop fighting the flow or determining direction and choose instead to allow myself to ride the current. Sure, plenty of you will have a theological disagreement with that statement one way or another. That’s okay. Sometimes God does help those who help themselves. Other times, he only helps those who rely on his help. The trick is knowing when is when.
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