![]() ![]() If you regularly read the Bible, it’s not unlikely that you’ve come across Psalm 32:8 before. Do not be like the horse or like the mule, which have no understanding, which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, else they will not come near you” (Psalm 32:8-9). “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go I will guide you with My eye. As my own struggle to understand God’s will has evolved, I’ve come to treasure a specific passage he wrote in Psalm 32: King David spent his life herding sheep, fighting battles, living as an outlaw, ruling a nation, and writing poems about his murderous thoughts and traumas. But if you’re one of those people who has an identity crisis when they’re asked to pick a restaurant to eat at, you know it’s a struggle to make choices in our lives and have peace about them. Maybe you’re not as maladjusted as I am when it comes to decision making. Whether you’re a high school graduate figuring out your next step or a couple deciding where you should move or an empty-nester looking for wise ways to invest your time, it’s a question that never really goes away. …asking about God’s will made me want to curl up in the fetal position and eat refined sugar.Īside from figuring out if we want to accept Jesus, whom to marry, and whether or not pineapple belongs on pizza, wondering what God’s will is, is probably the biggest question we all deal with. What if I did the wrong thing? How was I supposed to know what the right thing was? How could I move forward when I didn’t see things coming together? What if I was just doing what I wanted to do and not actually doing God’s will and I was going to lose my salvation because I was self-deceived and didn’t even know it? (Taking things to an extreme is my spiritual gift.) I needed to know God’s will, but the possibility of making the wrong choice caused emotional hemorrhaging. ![]() Actually, for years, asking about God’s will made me want to curl up in the fetal position and eat refined sugar. I didn’t know what God’s will was and I was scared of making a decision. I was sad and scared and anxious because I suddenly realized that I wasn’t going to be in high school the next year and I was the one in charge of figuring out what I would be doing instead. But people got tired of hearing me scream, ‘I’M GONNA DIE!!! I’M GONNA DIE!!!’ Hope your birthday’s a scream.” Funnily enough, that pretty much described the stress I was just beginning to feel as I reached the big 1-8. For my eighteenth birthday, my mom gave me a card that read, “I used to live each day as though it were my last. ![]()
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