(click the title above to read today's entry from My Utmost for His Highest)
Additional Scriptures: Hebrews 11:8, Genesis 12 (12:1), 2 Chronicles 20:12 (20:1-24), Luke 12:22 (12:22-30), 1 Nephi 4:6 (1 Ne 3 & 4)
Don't you like to know everything? I am such a control freak that sometimes I spend hours planning what will happen. It's like building a house of card though, because those painstaking placements come tumbling down when a soft breeze blows. So this is the call for today ... go and do, without knowing the plan of God.
I love the line in the devotion today: "God does not tell you what He is going to do -- He reveals to you who He is." Think about that in terms of the hope and determination we need to place in Him and the concept of revelation takes on a whole new meaning. As we "go out," without a clue of what will happen in our walk with God, we have the opportunity to know more about Him. It then follows that the knowing becomes the asking and the living. In other words, as we learn to know Him more, we begin to ask the things that He would ask and live the way the He would live.
Each of the stories in today's scriptures are crossroads stories for the participants. Abram was directed to go to the promised land, Jehoshaphat was directed not to fight, the disciples were told to forget about clothes and food and finally, Nephi and his brothers were instructed to go and get the plates. Each had a moment to say, "What?" "Are you kidding me?" That's not recorded, but how likely is it that those would be our responses to the same kind of revelations or requests from the Lord today?
We have a hard time "fitting in" scripture study and Family Home Evening, let alone being instructed to not fight when the when the forces of all Canaan are surrounding us (Jehoshaphat). Yet, none of these scriptural examples represented blind obedience. They represent trust (illuminated by hope and determination) that God knows you personally. God is a miracle working God. Forget about the convictions and creeds and past experiences you've had and today, simply "go and do."
When have you "gone out" and let the Lord work miracles in your life?
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
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i think the last time I went "blindly" but certainly not without questions to "go and do" was when we moved from California to Tennessee. Not a big deal for some people to move "job related" but we were actually starting a business that we could have started anywhere...anywhere. Why TN? I still don't know. BUT, we came and we are doing and it is truly a learning experience and has definetly been a leap outta my comfort zone. AND ITs BEEN FIVE YEARS already!
Anyway, I appreciate your blog. Keep me on your list. I will come, I will read. AMY F
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