What do you do when life is uncertain?
Trust – God has a plan even when you can’t discern it. Faith is being certain when life is uncertain; believing when you cannot see. It’s much harder to worry when you are trusting. Psalm 56:3, Proverbs 3:5, Jeremiah 17:7
Pray – Ask God for discernment and clarity, but also for patience. Keep talking and listening. Jeremiah 29:12, Mark 14:38, 1 Thessalonians 5:17
Wait – God will reveal Himself in due time. Our job is to be still. Psalm 27:14, Psalm 46:10
Act – Waiting doesn’t mean doing nothing. It means acting on only what you’ve been given instructions to do. That’s usually plenty to keep us busy. 1 Kings 2:6a, Isaiah 52:13, 1 Corinthians 16:13, Colossians 3:23
Are you in a time of uncertainty?
Which of these is proving most difficult for you right now?
Which do you most need to do?
I would have to say that waiting is the hardest. While we wait to see if we are to move and all the details. As well the acting is not going to be an easy one. We lost our 13 year old daughter a little over a year ago and this house is where we have lived for 10 of those years with her. So many memories are here. I know that God will take care of it all. I just have to do the waiting thing and not get impatient to make it happen. Thank you for sharing this.
For me, at least with my marriage, it's waiting and trusting. As others have pointed out it's a lot of times a matter of patience. But for me it's also a matter of waiting without seeing any progression; like waiting for water to boil, but after 20 minutes there's no sign that it ever will. I can wait for my wife's heart to be restored to me, but after three years and almost no movement, I seriously begin to doubt if there ever will be and that makes the waiting that much harder.
Trusting is also hard, although you'd think , for a Christian, trusting in God would be easy. For me it's not a matter of disbelieving that He's got a great plan, it's a matter of knowing that His plan may not be what I want; and yes I know that's a failure on my part and not His. There's nothing to say that the plan won't be filled with pain and sorrow along the way. For me, I have great hopes that with the incredible love that He's given me for my wife, a love that allows me to step up each day to be the man and honor her, we will eventually be restored. But when the waiting seems to produce no fruit, I begin to doubt what I believe I know and then I have issues trusting that it's all just going to work out and then I pray "just do something"; take me home or take her home, let her leave or kick me out or bring us together…something seems better than the nothing that I seem to be stuck in at the moment.
Twitter: KariScare
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Great reminder of what we all need to integrate regularky into our day lives.
Thanks Kari!
Waiting….and waiting…and waiting.
Thanks Ron as always, needed these fruitful words today! It all intermingles if we practice what you preach!!
Thanks Melissa.
Usually when I am in a waiting time, I add two things to that list: Study and Consulting.
I try to study what my options are from a Biblical viewpoint because frequently I have been a person who can't see the forest for the trees. It reassures me to find revisit the Scriptures.
I have a really trusted tight-lipped praying friend who is willing to tell me the hard truth and also loves me unconditionally. She is a gift from God. Actually I am blessed with more than one friend like that. I think that consulting with wise friends can help in a long haul time of waiting.
I absolutely loved your graphics. Jesus majored on simple truths.
That's good Mindi!
Twitter: bryankr
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That would have to be the waiting part. I’m sure many people say the same thing. With me, it isn’t waiting because of inactivity, so much as it is the spevific of what I’m waiting for! I asked you to pray recently, for something in my job, it still hasn’t been resolved. In my mind I know He has a plan, I know He hasn’t forgotten. Type “A”‘s are not big on having no plan! I don’t require a detailed,minute by minute schedule, but, something would be nice! The hardest part in this waiting, for me, is allowing His plan to actually take place. Allowing myself to trust somebody else with details, even if that someone is God. Learning is about broadening our selves, our minds, decision making process. Just glad He is patient!
I'm with you.
Often, I find waiting upon the Lord the most difficult proposition to keep up. In this micro-oven culture, I find waiting the most difficult.
Me too Uma.