Sweet Memories From Our July Family Vacation

A few weeks back, our parents, all siblings/their spouses and kids (except Munchette and her fiance) were able to spend time together camping, hiking, and even doing a little water skiing. While it was only a three day weekend, it was so nice. Definitely a high-light of the month, and one worth looking back on at the end of the year.

Waiting on God: Not Growing Weary Waiting for His Wisdom

Lord Jesus, please give me wisdom. I don't know what to do or even how to feel. I pray that you would make it clear what I am to do.

This, in various forms, has been a prayer of mine over the past several months. It is still a prayer now. I would be lying if I said I didn't feel weary and like giving up at times. Sometimes I wonder how long it will take for God to reveal His plan and make His path for my life clear. I keep trying to hold on to His promises for providing wisdom to all who seek it with a humble heart, His guarantee that He will never leave me or forsake me, and His assurance that He has my best in mind; and yet, I'm still waiting for answers. At least, the answers I'm looking for, in the form I want them. 

He is constantly reminding me to continue to wait on Him, to do my best to be faithful to Him, and to cast all my cares on Him. He is showing me that I can't even understand myself, much less how to handle various life situations. And He is reminding me that His grace is sufficient. While He hasn't revealed his specific will in certain aspects of my life, He is showing me a different kind of wisdom.

I'm currently reading Knowing God by J.I. packer, and the chapter I read two nights ago, on wisdom, was encouraging and rebuking. If you haven't read the book, I highly recommend it. The following paragraph sums up the chapter on the wisdom of (and from) God.

Thus, the kind of wisdom that God waits to give to those who ask him is a wisdom that will bind us to himself, a wisdom that will find expression in a spirit of faith and a life of faithfulness.  Let us see to it, then, that our own quest for wisdom takes the form of a quest for these things, and that we do not frustrate the wise purpose of God by neglecting faith and faithfulness in order to pursue a kind of knowledge which in this world it is not given to us to have. 

 J. I. Packer, Knowing God 108 (1973 20th ann. ed. 2009).

Yes, I am waiting for answers to my specific life situations. But, He who promised is faithful. My duty is to is to live a life faithful to Him, with the present wisdom that He gives now. I must not, as I have been tempted, neglect faith and faithfulness in order to pursue answers He has not given me to have. Pursuit of these answers becomes nothing less than an idol. 

"If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth." Colossians 3:1-2 (English Standard).

"Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice . . . do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:5-7 (English Standard.

I have no idea what the future holds, but, as the cliche goes, I know the One Who holds the future.

Hold fast to Jesus!

Sonia