Wondering Leads to Wandering....

Lately, I have found myself wondering about what's next in my life. What does God have for me to do next? Where am I to be at right now? I wonder if I should be doing something different? I wonder.......

This morning in prayer, I told God that I was not going to wonder anymore. I told Him that I was simply going to trust His Word and the leading of the Spirit and He began to show me that my wondering has led to lack of revelation in my personal time with him. For quite a while now when I would go to read my Word, it would feel empty, powerless, and just blah. And now I know why. I looked up some definitions of wonder and here is what it said: to think or speculate curiously, to doubt. I could not believe that this is a word that I used in my walk with God. I could see that by wondering about the future that I was really wavering and doubting. Those words are ugly and we don't like to use them, but wondering is basically the same thing.

As I began to sit down and write some notes on this, God told me that wondering leads to wandering. As Christians, we're familiar with the term wandering and we know that it is not something we're interested in. To wander means to deviate from what you believe. The Israelites wandered around aimlessly in the desert because they would not TRUST God. The opposite of wondering is trusting. To trust means to be planted like a tree. When the wind blows, and the storms come, and dogs pee, that tree is not going anywhere because it is rooted deep. We must be rooted deep in the Word of God so that when circumstances arise we will stay planted and stay trusting God.

I will no longer wonder, I will only trust. I don't have to wonder about the future because the Holy Spirit will show me things to come. I don't have to wonder about what's going to happen because God's Word is true and it will never fail. Pslams 40:4 says, "Blessed is that-> -> ->man that makes the Lord his trust. It's simple, TRUST God and you will be blessed. That's what I'm going to do.

I will not let wondering lead me to wandering, but rather let TRUST in God lead me to the blessing!