There is much resistance to "sit and wait on the Lord and listen," apparently because we do not know how to do that. Our reasoning mind cannot grasp that spinning our wheels analyzing is fruitless...plus not even being a spiritual activity.
The way to sit and wait on the Lord and listen is to do the next thing.
Please note that that does not say "do the next right thing." No. That's probably the root of our walking-around problems...waiting to be absolutely certain sure that we are going to do the right thing.
The next thing we do is the next right thing. It is ego alone that slides the qualifier in there. That all but guarantees we'll sit and ponder, analyze, cry, talk it over, talk it over some more, trying to figure out exactly what the next right thing is. All that delay is just fear of being wrong.
We'll only know by doing...if it is wrong, it'll only be wrong to the extent that the end result is not what we had in mind. That's how we learn that God's will seldom even resembles our prayerful wants. We only discover that it is infinitely better than we could ever have imagined by going forward seeking always his will over our own will. That is what's called "holding your nose and taking a leap of faith."
I've come to believe that this is the initiation we read so much about. Initiation that is necessary for us in our coming to trust that which we have decided we believe; namely, that God can and will if sought, that God has our back, that he goes before us to make the crooked places straight, that God can and will intervene in our life in our behalf...all of our goodies.
All are just so many pretty words until we quit talking 'em and start walking 'em. Let's hold our nose and take a leap of faith.
Thank you.
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