Lately, God has been prompting me to do many things that I do not understand. As I take each step of obedience, I can’t help but analyze and romanticize the results. I imagine this awesome outcome that shines the glory of God and affects many lives. I anticipate the gates of heaven opening up and flooding the fruits of my efforts with miraculous and jaw-dropping wonders.
However, the endings that I dream up usually fizzle away, and I’m left with conclusions that wouldn’t make it into book, let alone a best-sellers’ list. After one such disappointing end to a much built up step of obedience, I asked God what I was doing wrong.
Clearly, I was messing something up or not fully understanding God’s whispers into my heart. Although I’m sure that God appreciated my version of the story, and I can’t help but think He must have been quite amused; He finally showed me what I was missing: Everything!
He told me that I do not have the full perspective of my life, so I cannot fully comprehend the beautiful story that He is weaving for me. He also told me that when I do know the full scope of my time on earth and the outcome of all my steps of obedience are laid before me, I will fall to my knees in awe of the miraculous and jaw-dropping wonder that He created through my obedience and trust in Him.
Memory Verse:
“You turn things around! Shall the potter be considered as equal with the clay, That what is made would say to its maker, ‘He did not make me’; Or what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘He has no understanding’”?
-Isaiah 29:16 (NAS)
Prayer Prompt:
“Lord, please help me to be obedient to You even when I don’t understand the outcome. Help me to be content with the fact that I may not get immediate gratification with my steps of faith. Let me trust in the knowledge that You have something awesome planned for me if only I walk in step with the Holy Spirit. Be with me now as I take a step of faith in…”
Contributing Writer:
Alisa Hope Wagner
Faith Imagined
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