I think about all the times in my life when I told God what he needed to do. Prayers that not only laid out the problem but also the solution. Prayers that told him what was best for my life, what would make me happy, what would make everything work out right.
Boy, was I foolish. Boy, am I still foolish.
Simple solutions to complex problems are rarely that simple and they are rarely solutions. That goes for international crises and for personal plans.
I need to learn to trust and say, “Your will be done.”
It ain’t easy, folks.
This Sunday I am wrapping up a short class on the book of Jonah. I haven’t been swallowed by a great fish, but I have realized that there were times on the mission field when I probably should have been thrown overboard. There have been even more times when I was angry at God, because he didn’t follow my instructions the way he should have. It sure is easier to talk about whether it was a great fish or a whale than it is to go face to face with God as he illustrates the shortness of our narrow minded vision.
Jonah is anything but a children’s story.
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