“What am I doing wrong?” Ever ask yourself that? I sure have, usually it comes at a moment of desperation in which all my attempts to solve the issue at hand have failed.
It comes from honest effort; a genuine heart to try, but met with many failures one grows distressed to find a solution. Now if you are anything like me, you will first go to those many “good” sources in your life. You will ask friends, family, mentors and consult great leadership or self-help materials to give you direction. In essence you amp up the volume of voices in your life, that’s mistake number 1. As we do this we often will ask everyone but the one that is the provider of that which we seek, God. Instead of asking Him we ask them and that’s mistake number 2.
As a result of going in many directions we get tired. Exhausted from all the running around, the chaos of choices and the multitude of crossroads we throw up or hands and give up! Often we give up just before the true answer to our crisis comes. Mistake number 3 was evident from the beginning.
To round out our misguided adventure we resort to the final round of using logic where seemly our emotions and faith has fallen through. But instead of our last resort, logic was given to us by God to help point the way to a bigger solution than it alone can provide. Logic was given to us to help us decide where we really need faith; that we need God. Mistake number 4 seals our fate of frustration in finding and staying in God’s will.
Quite your life this week, ask God those burning questions and listen. When the answer does not come when you expect continue to wait and use the brain you have to help you determine you increasing need of God’s will in your life. The more you have to wait the more you should be convence through your logic reasoning that the only way through your situation is to put your trust in God.
“In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.” (Psalm 5:3)
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