Good Tuesday morning! We have an inborn desire to seek answers and we also enjoy the discovery of an answer in our searching. However, at other times, God provides the answer directly. Yesterday, at the urging of the Holy Spirit, I got out my voice recorder from its usual place in my headboard. There are 72 recordings on it and I started listening to them at the beginning. The first discovery, if you make only one voice recording of yourself, you will probably never make another. We all seem to go through the "I sound really goofy" phase when we do our first recording. As I got past that and began to listen to myself, I came upon a recording from a time of anxiety way back in the days before college was done and I still worked at that place up on the hill.
In that recording, I wondered about when to take up a writing career and when to leave my long time job. Of course that night I had no answers, but it was interesting to listen to myself questioning. As some of you know, a couple of years later, I graduated from college and God then provided the answer about when to leave my former employer. I believe that God set the date long ago, and then helped me to discover that particular answer by having security escort me out the front door. While that termination process was indeed painful; I did get what I had asked for: the Lord made it obvious and clear that the time had come. Did I learn some wisdom from those events? You bet, be careful... be very careful, what you ask for! :-)
Most of the time the answers that God provides are not nearly so painful. Often we delight in God's answers just as He does in giving us those answers. We have a lot of questions in this life and not all of those questions will be answered on this Earth. On the other hand, God does answer many questions and Jesus told us to keep on asking and seeking. I have begun a new journey in life. For my comfort, the Holy Spirit has sent assurances through my ministers that we are often called to start a journey for the Lord without assurances of the result. What assurances do we have? We have the assurance that Jesus will never leave us or forsake us; that God will provide food to eat and clothing to wear; and that all things work together for our own good. Wow, maybe I don't need to worry so much about the outcome! Faith takes a step toward the goal.
Have a wonderful new day in Christ!
Bucky
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