Take Him at His Word

“If you have questions about what God is doing in your life, continue to trust Him and seek clarity through prayer and His Word.”
~Excerpt from Our Daily Bread, http://www.rbc.org/odb/odb.shtml

Lately, there are situations in my life that I’ve been struggling to give God completely. I’ve certainly committed them to Him from the beginning, and felt Him leading in certain directions—and still leading those ways. But then something happens to shake my confidence in what He’s told me. It makes me wonder whether I’ve misinterpreted Him, or whether He’s steering me another way. But every time I start to doubt, God gives me the assurance that I should stand firm--whether he uses an incident or His Word. Most recently, it was this quote from yesterday’s Our Daily Bread, a collection of daily short devotionals accompanied by scripture passages. Through these situations, He’s showing me how essential it is to constantly give Him everything I am—my plans, my actions—everything. That’s when worry stops, and character grows.

Where would I be without Him? I really don’t want to know.

If you don’t think God cares, try giving Him your deepest desires. Not just for a day or two, but for months—then years. When you give something to Him for an extended period of time—meaning, you constantly pray for His will in a situation, trusting that only He can give you the best outcome--you see Him work, and you gain the confidence to give more things to Him. It doesn’t mean you don’t ever doubt, but it does mean that doubt dwindles.

Dare to take Him at His Word. Everything He says, He does. I don’t know anyone else who can be that good to me.