Trust and obey

This was a huge lesson that permeated much of my time in South Africa. Trust and obey. So many of the situations that I was in this was all that I could do. Trust and obey. It was evident that I wasn't in control here, that I didn't understand the plan that was going on. But God did. And that's all that mattered. He'd knew the outcome, and that was all the security that I needed. Trust and obey.

In the rush of live Stateside again, it's easy to forget this. In a culture that so presses independence, it's easy to become independent of others, even independent of God. This doesn't work, my friends. As I struggle (still) with adjusting back to life here, a dear friend reminded me of something. I need to trust God. Trust and obey. In SA, it was easy to trust Him with life and death matters; really I had no choice. But back in the States, I've fallen (hard) into pride. Unconsciously, I've taken the reigns from God on "little" things, things that I could handle on my own. Wrong! Slowly, I'm learning to give these things back to God, to trust that He cares about the small stuff as well as the big, and that in the end He is God who began a good work in me will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus (Phil 1:6).
Trust and obey.
Where you lead me, LORD, I will follow.