Adulting means being responsible for your own life.
Being a Christian means yielding your life to Jesus, following Him, obeying Him and surrendering.
When you are in control of your own life, that can be hard.
When you are responsible, it can be difficult to give up self-reliance.
That doesn’t mean God doesn’t want us to be responsible. He does.
Still, with the twists and turns of life and sometimes not knowing where the Lord is leading you can weigh things down until you are willing to fully submit. That wrestling with God as Jacob did.
Humility? Of course, humility unto the Lord.
Who is in charge here? You or God? And, are we really sure it is God?
It takes learning God’s ways to know what God is asking. Even then, we can toil over the answer.
Sometimes God is not fast enough for our liking.
Sometimes, we don’t like the answer and our minds cannot line up with whatever the solution is.
Is it really God showing me? Especially if it does not make much sense
or it it seems to conflict with something else we do that is good.
It seems the answers come easy at times and other times, we cannot rest on any answer,
as there could be several options.
Still, if you desire to follow God and to do His will above your own, it will become clear.
He will light your path and make His ways known.
NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105
I have learned:
Look for the blessings.
Be sensitive to the Holy Spirit and His correction.
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Proverbs 6:23
If you do not know what to do, wait on the Lord.
Go about your Father’s business like Jesus did and keep doing the things you already know you are to do.
Don’t get too hung up on what you should or shouldn’t do.
Jesus often warns us beforehand when He is changing something in our lives.
He showed the Israelites a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night so they knew when to continue.
Jesus warned the disciples what was going to happen so they might remember His words and know they were following in the right direction.
Whatever way Jesus gets through to us, He knows each of us and keeping eyes on Jesus and Jesus as the preeminence shows us where He is and even what He is doing.
In these last days, we must walk even closer with Him, be willing to give up whatever it is He is asking of us and to follow Him without the shackles of the world.
The world will weigh you down. The obligations or comforts can make us slow us to hear from God.
Remember, obligation to men is not the same as obedience to God.
Obligation stems from the flesh, to please others or one’s own self-righteousness.
Stay in His word as He brings His will to the forefront of your life.