I have a friend who is going back to school. She is going to study religious studies. She is very close to my age, give or take a few weeks - or maybe a year or so. I say this because I'm not young....so neither is she....in terms of going to college. An octogenarian would think we are young but I'd be willing to bet that there are a lot more people younger than older than we are, so we aren't young.
She is starting a new phase in her education. When I asked her what she will do with this education once complete, she said she didn't know....... She doesn't know. She only knows that she feels drawn to starting these classes. When her application was accepted, she was nearly ecstatic. But she doesn't know what she is going to do with this.
Can you tell that this boggles my mind? I am not a control freak. I do not overly plan anything. I don't need to know all the details of whatever it is that I'm working on or planning. I am actually a procrastinator and a very successful one at that! But I am bumfuzzled that someone would start something like a 2 year stint in college (on top of working a in-excess of 40 hour per week job) without knowing where it will lead.
I have to say that I am very impressed that she can and will do this on blind faith. I have to believe that is what it is. God wants her to take classes, so she is. She has no idea what God will have her do after that. She just knows that God will lead her. She trusts Him.
Abram, who became Abraham, took off for some far-off place because God told him too. He didn't know where it would lead and what would happen when he got there. Moses set out to rescue the Israelites from the Egyptians when God told him too. He had no idea he'd wonder in the desert for 40 years and never make it into the promised land. These people just do as God told them. They trust Him.
I am impressed with that because I do not know if I am able to do the same if the situation arises. I question even small requests. I ignore others. God has a plan. God uses us as part of that plan. I can choose to be part of it, or sit on the sidelines. I can wait until it is all laid out for me or go on faith. I wish I could say that I will go on faith. I wish I trusted enough.
God, Father, Holy Spirit, please fill me with enough faith and trust to just do when You call me to. Help me get past my need to KNOW what comes next so that I will accept all the opportunities You lay before me to do Your will. Amen.
She is starting a new phase in her education. When I asked her what she will do with this education once complete, she said she didn't know....... She doesn't know. She only knows that she feels drawn to starting these classes. When her application was accepted, she was nearly ecstatic. But she doesn't know what she is going to do with this.
Can you tell that this boggles my mind? I am not a control freak. I do not overly plan anything. I don't need to know all the details of whatever it is that I'm working on or planning. I am actually a procrastinator and a very successful one at that! But I am bumfuzzled that someone would start something like a 2 year stint in college (on top of working a in-excess of 40 hour per week job) without knowing where it will lead.
I have to say that I am very impressed that she can and will do this on blind faith. I have to believe that is what it is. God wants her to take classes, so she is. She has no idea what God will have her do after that. She just knows that God will lead her. She trusts Him.
Abram, who became Abraham, took off for some far-off place because God told him too. He didn't know where it would lead and what would happen when he got there. Moses set out to rescue the Israelites from the Egyptians when God told him too. He had no idea he'd wonder in the desert for 40 years and never make it into the promised land. These people just do as God told them. They trust Him.
I am impressed with that because I do not know if I am able to do the same if the situation arises. I question even small requests. I ignore others. God has a plan. God uses us as part of that plan. I can choose to be part of it, or sit on the sidelines. I can wait until it is all laid out for me or go on faith. I wish I could say that I will go on faith. I wish I trusted enough.
God, Father, Holy Spirit, please fill me with enough faith and trust to just do when You call me to. Help me get past my need to KNOW what comes next so that I will accept all the opportunities You lay before me to do Your will. Amen.
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