Saturday, June 6, 2009

Help I don't know what to do...

Hebrews 13:6
I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support.

I have found myself at a crossroad in my life. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions…It would be so nice if God would just give us the book “Our Own Life.” We just have to trust him…He knows where we are going and He knows what we are going through and He knows how we are going to get there.

Psalm 48:14 (Amplified Bible)
14For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide [even] until death.

How great is that…He will guide us until death? It has taken me a lot of heart aches to get to the trust that He will guide us until death.

If we don’t believe we want receive that guidance. We have to pray and look for the answers.
Even though we don’t know what to do when we have a decision to make, we have to believe with all our heart, the one who does know is on our side. God is always on our side…I know he wants joy and happiness for us. We just mess up our joy and happiness sometimes by setting out on our own to figure out our life without him.

When we seek him in good times we want have as many bad times. I am trying, with all that I have, to continue my relationship with our father God in the good times. He has gotten me though so many bad times.

Big thinkers have trouble enjoying life and have a harder time being happy. If we could, truly, just turn everything over to God. We could go about our life and just let God work it all out.

Isaiah 42:16 (Amplified Bible)
16And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known. I will make darkness into light before them and make uneven places into a plain. These things I have determined to do [for them]; and I will not leave them forsaken.

It doesn’t matter what is going on with us. We must believe we are in the middle of Gods will or plan.

Realize the freedom from not having to know.
We don’t know the answer to what is going on…God keeps us in a place of not knowing a certain amount of things. Trust requires a certain amount of unanswered questions in our life.
There is no such thing as trust without unanswered questions.
All the things we have right now in our life that we don’t have the answer to are the things we have to trust God with.
What would we need Him for, if there was nothing to trust Him for? God is always going to keep us in a place where we have to trust Him.

Proverbs 3:5-8 (Amplified Bible)
5Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.
6In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.
7Be not wise in your own eyes; reverently fear and worship the Lord and turn [entirely] away from evil.

We are not smart enough to run our own lives.
Sometimes when God is going to use us greatly…He allows us to go through some things so we can understand what other people are going through.
Sometimes there are things that God didn’t put on us but He didn’t remove for a period of time…Because He wants us to experience what other people are going through…so we can have compassion and minister to them out of our heart of compassion not out of our head knowledge.

Satan asks…what are you going to do?

Don’t let not knowing pressure you.

Psalm 32:8 (Amplified Bible)
8I [the Lord] will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

Romans 8:28 (Contemporary English Version)
28We know that God is always at work for the good of everyone who loves him. They are the ones God has chosen for his purpose,

I don’t know what to do but I know that God knows. I trust God to guide me...

This post is taken from a Joyce Myers study "Hold On...I Don't Know What To Do". Her thoughts have inspired me and I have added some of my thoughts.