I will trust in you....

There is nothing more annoying than a child who constantly is disobedient. Seriously. I work with kids and when they deliberately disobey what I ask them to do, it shoots fire through my veins. I get so aggravated and say, "WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LISTEN AND OBEY WHAT I ASK YOU TO DO?!?!?"

I wonder what God feels like when we are disobedient to what He asks us to do. Think about it, it could be something as simple as, "get out of the right lane of the highway." Or maybe, "I'm going to need you to pack a suitcase and go on a one-month mission trip to Zimbabwe." I'm finding it harder and harder to be obedient to what God has asked me to do because it's not what I thought it would be.

I thought the box was going to be wrapped in pretty hot pink and teal polka-dots and presented to me on my birthday. Except it was wrapped in burlap and twine and hidden in the forest surrounded by wolves. It's not what I expected it to look like when I began to pray for it. But what is IT that I'm talking about?

Well, "it" could be a multitude of things. God's will. Your calling. Direction. Your future spouse. The location of your keys. Don't laugh, I do that all the time. Sometimes we get direction and it's completely off from what you thought the answer should be. STORY TIME! This morning on the way to get groceries with Justin, I was praying for direction.

"God, please direct my path. Whatever your will would be. I just need to know what to do." His response, "Trust me." SERIOUSLY!?!?! I'm looking for specifics here. Directions God. I'm at a stop sign and I don't know where to turn. Left or right. Not trust me. That's all God wants me to do right now, is to trust Him. Even though I don't have the slightest idea what that means. I have to be willing to do things I am uncomfortable with and trust God even when His direction or answer is WAY out of the ordinary.

Like Lauren Daigle says, "I will trust, I will trust, I will trust. I will trust in you!"

But are you willing to do that? I mean really really do it?