Re-Posted from "Meditations of a Charismatic Calvinist Who Does Not Speak in Tongues"
Understanding and following God's leading in our life is not always
easy. And one thing I have learned the hard way is God does not always
tell me what I want to know when I want to know it. I have walked into a
room and felt a spirit of dissension and prayed against it. Only to
see the people there end up at loggerheads with one another. And I was
later told by one of the people involved that on the day I walked into
that room, nothing had happened yet. But on other occasions I have been
totally blindsided by things I had not a clue were going to happen.
And there were other cases that I still cannot make heads or tails of,
where I felt God was leading me to do something and still do not know
why He had me do it. Elisha was a prophet (a title I would not at all
claim), but we are told God did not always let him know what was going
to happen (2 Kings 4:27). Why should I expect anything different?
But
it is at times like these that I fall back on the fact that God is in
control of the world and in control of my life (Ephesians 1:11; Romans
8:28; Ephesians 2:10). Still, I do not think God ever tells us
everything, because He wants us to trust in Him and not in the knowledge
He gives us (Proverbs 3:5,6; Psalms 127:1,2; 1 Corinthians 3:18). If
we think everything is on our own shoulders, we will falter. But if we
trust in God, He will bring us through.
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