This morning my prayer is that I would zoom out. Father, you've made me analytical by nature. You have placed in me a great ability to get to the root of problems and see past the initial "what seems to be." It is comfortable for me to stay in problem solving mode; I have developed a great friendship with figuring things out. But in the process, I have become critical. I have become an anxious mess that can't seem to disconnect from a job that you gave me. I am thankful for the challenge, but I have focused too long on the odds stacked against me. I zoomed in on each of those individual odds, all the facets and corners and dents and dings; the parts I understood and the parts I didn't understand and I lost the bigger picture. The bigger picture that sometimes you stack the odds against us so that you can show up and get all the glory. Gideon, Joseph, Abraham, David, Ester -- all found themselves in positions of facing insurmountable odds. Odds that you used to train, mold, and teach them. So, I will trust that in this time of what feels like insanity when all the odds are against me; that you Lord have placed them there. And that you Lord will walk me out of them.
I have prayed in the past to see the road ahead. I have asked you to show me the outcome of this road or to simple make the path clear to my feet. And it struck me today that you are not interested in if I can see the road ahead; only that I develop the faith to trust you when I can't.
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