So I was reading this book for my leadership class and the author was writing about a salesman that he knew that would fly all over the country selling his products to make a living. On one of his trips he happened to look down from his plane and he saw this truck that was extremely eager and in a hurry to pass all these cars in front of him. The truck kept swerving in and out of the lanes and speeding up and slowing down. The salesman kind of slowed down and just kept observing the truck to see what he would do. Every time the truck went to pass the cars ahead of him he would come to a double line, or there would be a hill or curb or a car coming from the other direction. The Salesman just kept thinking ‘if only I had a way to communicate with this guy I could help him out and tell him when it is safe to go or when to wait, seeing as I can see everything ahead of him that he cannot.
This just really made me think about how God is the same way with us. He is constantly looking down at us just watching, wondering what we are going to do thinking ‘if only they would talk to me and allow me to communicate with them so I could tell them when it is safe to go or when to just wait it out.
I know, for me at least, that is a real struggle to trust God and to trust that his will for my life is so much better than what I had planned out for myself. Trusting him has been especially hard since I have been at away at college. Before I left I thought everything was perfect. I had my friends, my family, my church and youth group that I was really involved in, I was in the relationship that I thought was right for me and that was going to turn into something big. And then I came to college and everything was torn away from me. Everything that I though was going to last had eventually ended and I was left with nothing. My world was completely turned upside down. I remember sitting on my bed and just saying, "No, God, this isn’t how everything was supposed to happen, everything was perfect before I came here. I came to college for the experience, for the people, to have fun. I did not come for you to completely reconstruct my life." I would get so frustrated because I knew what I wanted, I knew who I wanted to spend my life with…or so I thought. I am still learning to fully rely on God because I know that he has my best interests in mind even if I don’t understand how things could get any better than what I had. I cannot see over the little hills or around all the dips and curbs but God can see miles and miles ahead. I have no clue where God is going to take me in the next four years, I don’t even know what is going to happen in the next week or even day, but I do know that God knows what he is doing. He has my life all mapped out and under control. I just have to trust him and pray for guidance and he assures me that everything will be OK again.
What a great illustrations! Thanks for sharing it with all of us! It is so true that we can only see the "car" (or sometimes the semi) in front of us sometimes but He can see it all. It is such an awesome design because if I could see all that He has for me or where He wants me to go or what He wants me to do I would chicken out and say, "I can't do it!" Trusting is key!
ReplyDeleteI know that feeling of having everything torn away. It's like you're being dangled over a cliff. But GOD......just when you think He's forgotten you, steps in and gives a subtle reminder that He is aware of your desires, your circumstances, your weaknesses, and your fears. Hang in there! He will do "immeasurably more than you can ask or even imagine" (Eph. 3:20).
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