Lost in Faithlessness

Have you ever prayed that God would show you what you are supposed to do? Where to go to college? What to major in? Where to live when you graduate? What you’re supposed to be doing with your life? We are constantly asking God for directions to the places that we are supposed to go. What we seem to forget is that God is not a big fan of telling us exactly what we want to hear.

In Genesis 12, God commands Abram to leave his country and his home. To leave everything he knows to depart for a foreign land that he knows nothing about. God does not tell him why he must go, simply that he must. He does not even tell him where exactly his going. All God tells Abram is that he is to pack his things and move to a land he will show him. Without hesitation, Abram takes up everything he has and obeys God.

When we ask God for directions or what we are supposed to do, he most likely isn’t going give them to us like we want him to. It is a process. God did not tell Abram where he was going right away. He waited to see Abram’s faith and trust demonstrated in his willingness to depart toward the unknown. Sometimes God will tell us that we need to move, and then wait to see if we trust him faithfully before he tells us where. If you are seeking direction and have not been given any, perhaps you aren’t responding faithfully.

So very often, God tells exactly where we are supposed to go and we refuse to let ourselves see it because of this lack of faith. We don’t see what we don’t want to and we use excuses and lame reasoning to say, “Nah…God I think I want to do something else…” Stop listening to yourself and listen for the voice of God. When you hear it, act faithfully. Then, and only then will he give you directions.