However we look at it, making decisions on the basis of what we assume to be true instead of really listening to God is to lean more on our own understanding than on the Lord. It is rushing in where angels fear to tread. It is shooting in the dark and wanting to hit the bull’s eye. In other words, it is the behaviour of fools, and eventually we will err if we do it.
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Trusting Him in the Waiting
The two friends hand in hand at the altar that day had waited long years for God to put the details of their love story together; this was the culmination of years of prayer, patience and a decision to wait on God’s timing…To our finite minds the time we spend waiting can seem like a waste of good things – time, youth, beauty, energy, resources etc. – but God never wastes anything and His unfathomably great purposes are being carried out even in such minor details as somebody’s struggle with braces, someone’s missed deadline, or someone else’s delayed happy ending in their love story.
