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Walking Uncertainty

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There are questions of the mind and questions of the heart.  Sometimes there are answers for both, sometimes there are answers for neither.  The book of Job contains many questions.  In the end, God answers Job’s questions with some questions of His own.  Life brings seasons of joy and also seasons of hardship.  Some days I ask this question.

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“Lord, are you going to walk me through another hardship?” 

 

I hope for a simple “No.”  I am more excited for a parting of the waters than I am for the fiery furnace.  As it turns out, God still answers with questions.

 

His question to me is this: “Are you willing to follow Me?”  

 

God is not actually wondering.  He asks because like Peter,  I need to be reminded of the answer I have already given Him.

 “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”  John 21:17

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Of course I love Him.  And of course I believe He loves me.  If I did not, I would not ask Him if it were possible to part these waters in the first place. 

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The Savior beckons me to follow Him.  The important thing is not where the road takes me, the important thing is that I take the road.  Not screaming, kicking, and complaining like I sometimes do, but with a heart that is open to receive the grace to walk it well.  With eyes open to behold the beauty He will reveal on the way.  With faith that His leading far surpasses the sketch of a map I tried to create for myself.  

I yield my own sketched out plans for life to Him and ask, “Where are we going?”  

 

He takes my plans and replies, “Are you coming?”

 

I answer by just for a moment, living Philippians 4.  

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known to God.”  Philippians 4:6

 

He who has existed from eternity to eternity can certainly be trusted with the blip on His parchment paper known as my life.  Had my life no significance, it would not have been part of His plan.  But I am, and therefore a part of His plan.  It is reasonable to believe He knows my significance.  And if this is the case, it is reasonable that I take my cues from Him (as opposed to if we could try it the other way around).  

To walk in faith is to believe that Who is going with me is more significant than where I am going.  It is to decide that believing there is an answer is more important than knowing the answer.  And it is unquestionably, being free to ask questions.  And never tiring of The Answer.

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