Trust Me and Obey

When you know beyond the shadow of a doubt God told you where to be and that things would work out. Why is it that You choose to just hold on to it for a little while? Why do we try to do it in our own strength? Why do we convince ourselves that God changed his mind and we have to make it work?

Why is it so hard to just stand still and know that God is workin on our behalf, that he is doing just as he said he would do? Why is it harder to do with somethings and easy with others?


Its not hard for me to say ok God I trust you with my life, I know I'm saved. If you said go and die for my sake I would. And I trust you with my son and T, I know you have special plans and purposes for them and you will work it out for their good. I know what you have shown me and what you have placed in my heart.

So if I trust him with the ones I love the most....and I'm not afraid to die. Then why am I afraid to obey God in living? Thats when my trust becomes just words. And God knows I'm really thinking. "I trust you God....but I have to get a job and a paycheck...how am I going to do it? "OOooo I can't stand when "they" do that...I'm not going to do this and that anymore." Knowing full well that my place was to stand still and know that God is God...He is still on the throne. He is in total control.

Thats my lesson I'm being given..."Trust me and obey" It doesn't matter what other do or don't do, its about what he told you to do. What you know is right. And its funny because God had it in my face for the longest. In the natural and in the spiritual.

In the natural, I was getting so frustrated that my brother comes home and doesn't do one tiddle of house work, he plays video games and complains about being tired from band practice. I was upset that I came home from work and cooked dinner, watched baby boy, vaccumed and did laundry. I didn't want to do it by myself, and I certainly didn't want to do it and not be recognized for it. I wanted for my brother to get chewed out because he didn't do anything to help. I wanted to be told I was doing my part so well. But its not about who helps me in house work or not. Its that I know dinner has to be cooked, that baby boy needs a bath and the house is a mess. So I am the one that needs to put my hands to doing it. Not worrying or fuming that no one else is.

Then in the spiritual there are 3 things that I know that I know that I know I am supposed to be doing right now. I only did 2 of the 3 till the other day, saying that the "church" should have done it. I argued with God and disobeyed because I didn't want to be alone in it. I didn't want to do my part regardless of what others thought or did. I know now that it doesn't work that way. God won't say "its ok, no body else did what I told them to do, so your off the hook." There is a story in the Bible about this precise thing. Its found in 1 Kings 13. It speaks of a prophet who let someone else determine his obedience to God and God destroyed him because of it. Its an interesting story... it makes you think.