That refrain is super simple. The words are easy and the concept is difficult. When I was in middle school, I remember asking "but what does that really mean to trust the Lord?" I was afraid of testing Him. I didn't want to make Him mad.
Now, really get it. Trusting the Lord can look like having a plan and allowing that plan float off into space without losing your cool. Or, losing your cool then coming back and saying "Ok, God. You know and I don't. That plan was what I had in mind, not what You do. I'm ready for what You have next."
That trust is powerful. And scary. And it doesn't necessarily make sense to those who don't know the Lord- it doesn't have to.
I am a planner. Sometimes, my planning turns out a little neurotic and reminds me of Monica from "Friends." Take this interaction from season 2:
Monica: Um, you guys, you know when I said before, "thank you, but I don't really need your help"?
Rachel: Actually, what I think you said was, "don't touch that, and get the hell out of my kitchen."
Monica: Really? Weird. Anyway, see, I planned everything really well. I planned and I planned and I planned. It just turns out, I don't think I planned enough time to actually do it.
Rachel: Hey, Mon, you want some help?
Monica: If you want.
Ok, I wouldn't tell anyone to get the hell out of my kitchen, but you get the picture. Sometimes I get so jacked up about the plan and I forget to breathe and allow room for feedback. When the possibility of 'the plan' changing comes up, my natural reaction is to freak out and try to scramble and redo all the planning for all of the new possible scenarios. This is exhausting and generally silly, because only one of those possibilities would really happen.
Now that I have a real relationship with the Lord, He is challenging me on this area of selfishness, this "I can do it for myself" factor. He continues to ask me "Are you going to let Me handle this?" and more obviously, "Do you trust Me?" Going against my natural grain of doing everything my way for myself is not easy, but it gets easier with practice. I know that whatever happens, whether I had anticipated it or not, God has known it was going to happen since a long time ago. He has the plan, not me. He is God, and I am not. He also doesn't need any help in figuring it all out. I can respect and trust Him by doing my part and then waiting to see what doors open or close. It's new and it's a different way of doing things, but it's much easier.
God is Good.
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