What do you do when you don’t know what to do? What answer do you give when you don’t know what answer to give? What decision do you make when you don’t know what decision to make? We all have a moral compass. We all have principles we live by, a code of conduct, if you will, but sometimes we still don’t know how to respond to or prepare for the next step. The world has its teachers, philosophers, critics, counsellors and guides. There are plenty of places to go and people to listen to, many different perspectives and directives, but advice none the less. If you travel too far on the wrong road you will have much ground to make up when you realize your misdirection. Many of us have learned this later in life and so desire to share our experience with those who come behind us. No one has “arrived”, but experience is a great teacher.
There is a wonderful blessing in remembering our Creator in the days of our youth. Ecclesiastes 12:1. Sometimes we remember later in life. The prodigal “came to himself”. Luke 15. By recognizing his wrong path, he returned to the Father. A change in direction going away from God and turning to God is a wise choice, but how do we know which way to go? God, in speaking about His word says, “This is the way, walk ye in it.” “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” “Walk not in the counsel of the ungodly.” Proverbs 3:5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” “In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” Even with all these promises, we need God’s help to understand and comprehend His word. John 17:17 states, “Thy word is truth”, but the Scripture also says the Holy Spirit will “guide us into all truth.” He is the One that makes the Bible come alive!
Romans 8:26-27, “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” “And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” Many times, we don’t know what to pray or what our true need is. Sometimes we can only say, “Help Lord!” A cry like “have mercy upon me” or “Lord be merciful to me a sinner” will always bring mercy and help. One man said “Lord I believe, help thou mine unbelief.” He knows just what we need. When you don’t know what to do, He does! When you don’t know what the answer is, He does! When you don’t know what decision to make, He does! Martin Luther said, “Pray and let God worry.”
“. . . it is presumptuous of me to wish to choose my path, because I cannot tell which path is best for me. I must leave it to the Lord, Who knows me, to lead me by the path which is best for me, so that in all things His will may be done.”
― Teresa of Ávila
“Dedication is writing your name on the bottom of a blank sheet of paper and handling it to the Lord for Him to fill in”
― Rick Renner
“We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn’t come naturally. It’s a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.”
― Swindoll Charles R.