i remember asking a guy once i was really struggling like y'all with
what exactly do i do i thought kind of the will of god was this one big red x and i was probably
going to miss it like a treasure hunt and i asked this guy who's just very very wise between these
two there were two different ministries i was praying about and i thought man if i go to the
wrong one i'm going to get hives and like you know it's going to be horrible and he said lisa
he said when i came home from work last night they have three kids he said pam and i asked the kids
if they wanted hot dogs macaroni and cheese or pizza because both of us were exhausted neither
one of us wanted to cook and those three choices have the same nutritional value or lack thereof
and he said all three kids screamed pizza and of course i'm thinking did he hear my question
why i asked him a really hard question about the will of god and i thought he must just be so tired
he doesn't even because i thought he's a wise guy i thought he was going to quote something
in hebrew like christy does and he didn't he started talking about his kids food choices
and then he said can you exercise your gifts in either one of these ministries and i was like
yes sir and he said um do either one of these ministries have something that you know
is not god honoring are they ministries filled with integrity and i was like
yes sir well one was based i won't tell you the city but it's flat and not super attractive
and the other one was in the mountains and he said what does your heart say and i was like i
want to be in colorado and he was like then god bless you go to colorado and i was like
goodness it's not necessarily a red x if you're in christ there are those bumpers if we're walking
toward the lord he's not going to let us miss it i'm not saying life is easy we live in a broken
world life can be stinking hard but there is a flow if you're in step with the holy spirit
this week i i had an experience that was kind of kind of strange i
we were leaving countries we just got back into the country we've been out for a couple months and
i got on the plane and i was by myself and i started thinking okay i think i just need to pray
and normally i sing i sing for hours on those flights i just sing to myself and i
um i started trying to pray and it was just so weird it was like a train wreck it was like
like i could not put two words together and i have a problem putting two words together anyway
but my prayer and it was just all of a sudden i started feeling a little guilty that i wasn't
praying right and it just this weird thing that i know the lord was was doing for me and i thought
what what in the world i can't even put a a prayer together so this guilt kind of set in and
and then i just started singing this old song and i just started weeping and i'm sitting
there weeping on the plane and god was like and i just felt the presence of the holy spirit and
and him saying why are you struggling why are you this is all i want from you and i think we make
life so hard and trying to choose the right path and to marry the right person and to do the right
thing and to go to the right city and to and we make it so difficult trying to hear god's voice
trying to when when i believe with my whole heart that if i just sit and worship and meditate on
how much i love the lord and how much he loves me that's i think that's the point realizing how much
god loves us and resting in that place that he will make the paths straight he said to trust
in me trusting god with all of your heart that's everything that that doesn't leave any more trust
kind of to place in any other thing except god he says i want you to trust me with all your heart
don't lean and i'll make your you acknowledge me in all your ways and i'll make your path straight
i will take you i will shut those doors that that no man can shut off open those doors where
no man can open and i just believe that if we do that it's not that life gets simple because we
have to trust and that's the hard part we have to believe god help our unbelief but
but he'll do that for us if we rest in him and we acknowledge him that god you are in control
of my life you make my my path straight that we we can't miss i don't believe we can miss our
purpose and destiny of our hearts and it's not like i think sometimes we
we have this um this caricature of god is like a coke machine if we put in the right quarter
we'll get out the drink we want that's not at all what we're saying not it we're not saying it's
transactional it's not easy there's a difference between easy and ease when you are walking with
god life may be really hard it may be really sad i mean goodness gracious last 18 months have been
hard for everybody so many people have lost lives livelihoods i mean there it's been hard so i'm
not trying to be pollyanna but if you're keeping step with the holy spirit if you're applying his
wisdom to your life there will be an ease there will be a peace that belies your circumstances
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