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Obeying


There are many things in my life that I wished had not taken place and so many plans I made that God thwarted which just broke the little heart that had its obstinate mind set on doing things its way. It's true, trials do build character but they only build character if we hold on to the lessons we learned during them.

We don't THINK clearly until a long time passes - but we sure can SEE clearly right now and right here.
We won't be able to reason WHY we have to obey, why this is being taken away, why this is happening or has been allowed to happen. And strangely, the more we try to think and reason our way out of a problem, out of confusion on what God's will is - we get more confused. Sure, we can do that in intellectual matters but in spiritual matters, it just lands us in further spiritual confusion.

"Simplicity is the secret to seeing things clearly - to see things clearly, to 'conquer' spiritual confusion, I must obey. Even the very smallest thing that we allow in our lives that is not under the control of the Holy Spirit is completely sufficient to account for spiritual confusion, and spending all of our time thinking about it will still never make it clear. Your reasoning capacity will come later but reasoning is not how we see. We see like children, and when we try to be wise we see nothing (see Matthew 11:25). We ought to bring all our arguments and every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ regarding the matter, and everything will become as clear as daylight for us (see 2 Corinthians 10:5)" - Chambers

And so, dear Pa, I commit this new day again to You - that I may obey You as simply as a child would. Following You sometimes appears to be waaay too complex for me but if I stop rationalising and reasoning and start having faith like a child.. obeying You can be so much simpler. With this in mind, I just pray that I will have the faith to stop questioning all Your decisions and ways, and just love You.

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