Recently I’ve had some faith based disagreements with people I love and care about. Most specifically they have centred around the idea that God is too big to care if you make a green light, or get a primo parking spot at the mall. Their opinion was yes, he is too big to care about the minutia of your life, mine is exactly the opposite.
Proverbs 3:5-6 resonates the most for me with respect to this. It says “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean upon your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” This verse doesn’t say in some of your ways acknowledge him, or only acknowledge him about the big stuff, it says in ALL your ways. It also says he will make straight your paths. There’s no qualification here. It doesn’t say only certain paths or only the big stuff. If, on a particular day, making straight my path, so that I know I’m doing what God wants, means I get a great spot at the mall, or a green light on the way to pick up my son from school, then so be it. I absolutely believe he has done that for me before and he will do it again. He makes it so obvious for us when we are doing his will. Making our paths so straight at times it feels like they are paved with big flashing lights saying this way forward.
There will always be people in your life who want to tell you who God is and who he isn’t. They want to frame or even limit your experience based upon their own. Don’t let them. Believe the truth that is in your heart, believe the truth that God has shared with you. Trust in the Lord with ALL of your heart. The people I love didn’t shake my faith or dampen my belief, instead they made me feel sad for them; sad that they haven’t yet experienced the love of God the Father. Do not let the world put God up on an unreachable shelf. There is a reason the Lord’s prayer starts with the words “Our Father”, because that is the relationship he wants with us more than anything. I guarantee you that God is with you, walking through your valleys and helping you climb your mountain tops. Mathew 7:7-8 “7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Seek and ye shall find, ask and you shall receive.”
God tells us over and over again the depth and intimacy of the relationship he wants with each one of us. Don’t lean on your own understanding, but instead sit back and allow an infinite God to love you like only a good Father can.
God bless,
Meredith
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