Wait in Obedience
“I don’t know what to do!” My sister and I would start to make this comment (usually with a whiny voice) during summer vacation from school as soon as the initial novelty of “free time” wore off. My mother would often list off some ideas – some fun, and some work – and we would consider whether each idea was the one we would choose. Eventually, if she didn’t say something we wanted to do, we would decide to go figure it out ourselves - much to Mom’s pleasure, I’m sure. We can easily get caught up in figuring out God’s specific instructions to us in a particular situation. We ask, “What should I do, Lord?” But when we don’t hear a specific answer, this can paralyze us. I don’t know what to do so I won’t do anything yet. Satan can put thoughts in our head like these: · God doesn’t care about me or He would answer. · There must be something wrong with me that I can’t hear from G...