What is this? An experiment. I was so busy in job and life - that my time with the Lord was lacking. This is a life-test of spending time with the Lord daily for 30 days - a "Put God First Test". Its a test that by putting him first in my life and prioritizing time with him... I am trusting him to help me with the rest. The test is not simply that my job and life will survive with me not working the crazy hours I had been working into the wee hours of the night. The test is that the Lord will greatly help me really flourish because I still work hard- but seek God daily and put him first in my priorities and time. I am blogging daily during this test...
Test Status:
I had some evidence of the Lord helping me yesterday on two customer sales calls that could have been difficult. One potential customer satisfaction issue and one contract negotiation- both went quite well and I felt I had favor with the customers. Also, a friend of mine at work said I had no idea how the Lord was using me- he'll tell me the details later. I had just prayed, if you recall yesterday's blog, for the Lord to use me etc. Go God!
About Evidence...
I talked about "evidence" just above.. as Christians we do enjoy seeing evidence things are going well as we obey the Lord but the life of walking with the Lord is not about requiring external evidence before we will obey the Lord. The life of the serious Christian (a "disciple") is about trusting before we see any result. Its about obeying the Lord even if everything is telling us there is no way its going to work out. We trust God that as we following him in areas like: seeking God, having honest business dealings, having purity of life, forgiveness, working hard, tithing, church attendance, or helping someone he will bless us in his way- and in his timing. He is faithful - he will eventually bless in a way we are able to see or understand but we obey out of love for him as a firm choice- no matter what the outcome.
The secret is when we trust without seeing and obey without any encouraging evidence we participate in God's work to shape us into his image. Continually trusting and obeying God over a long period of time does something to our character. When we trust God no matter what and obey what he says it leads to spiritual growth and strength.
When we trust God for long periods of time - it transforms us on the inside in life-changing ways.
Bible Passage:
Psalm 52 - this is what spoke to me in my daily Psalm:
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.
9 I will praise You forever,
Because You have done it;
And in the presence of Your saints
I will wait on Your name, for it is good.(NKJV)
What spoke to me is that in the earlier verses before 8 and 9 in Psalm 52 it actually talks about how someone who doesn't make God his strength in life -but trusts himself is actually wicked-wow strong words! But the Psalm writer says in spite of how others may live- he is going to trust God forever - and it says later he will wait on the Name of the Lord. This is a great tie-in with what I was talking about above (no coincidences in life-thanks Lord). We trust God forever - we wait on him and just like this writer said he is like a green olive tree---- we too will be like a thriving "green olive tree" that will have fruit in our lives. The point? Trusting and waiting does eventually produce fruit.
Lets GO together God - we'll trust you no matter what!
Scriptures obtained from Bible Gateway. NKJV of the Bible is Copyrighted by Thomas Nelson.
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