Lately my life has been filled with some very challenging seasons. There are times when I plead with God and cry out, “Lord, show me your will!” Then the more I honestly seek to know God’s will, I often feel confused, anxious, and uncertain because the way I go about it at times is in worldly ways. In a sincere desire to please Him, I sometimes walk in fear that I will make the wrong choice about what direction to go and what to do or not do on a daily basis and end up becoming stagnant and doing nothing at all. Oftentimes I spin in circles, wondering who He wants me to talk to, how am I going to do this or that, how He wants me to spend the time and money that He entrusted to me as a good steward. Every choice becomes challenging to make because I want to be pleasing to Him and yet I make some decisions in unbiblical ways – making my choices on signs and wonders or impulse, instead of the word of God or the prompting of the Holy Spirit. I often pray over what is written in *Isaiah 46:9 “Remember [carefully] the former things [which I did] from ages past; For I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, and there is no one like Me, 10 Declaring the end and the result from the beginning, And from ancient times the things which have not [yet] been done, Saying, ‘My purpose will be established, And I will do all that pleases Me and fulfills My purpose,’* There are times that I think that “if” God did that before then He “should” be able to do it now. The truth of God’s word is that “since” He did do it then, He “can” do it now, but whether He chooses to or not, is a totally different question. There is a quote by Charles Spurgeon that touches my life deeply, “Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord; show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity too into thy treasury; I am all thine; take me, and enable me to glorify thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have.” And all of God’s people who agreed said, Amen. My final encouragement, don’t ask God to guide your steps if you are not willing to move your feet. In Christ Love, douglas. HE>i. pastord.blog

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