Have you ever been in a conversation with someone on a subject you knew nothing about? Have you been in a conversation on a subject you knew a little but the person you are talking to is an expert? Do you sometimes think you know more about what’s going on than God?
Being in a conversation with someone who knows far more about a topic than we do can be imposing. It is especially so when the topic is one both we and the other person thinks we should know something about. We may quickly look for a way to escape the conversation.
During my time as an IT consultant, I often had conversations with people who assumed I knew everything about computers. Though I had ascended to being a Systems Architect, there was no way I could know everything about every computer, network router or switch, server, database, or programming language. I became good at asking questions and learning from the conversations.
When we pray, we often ask God for blessings. Those blessings may include healing, a new job, finding a mate, or even material things. We present our wants to God and wonder why he doesn’t answer. Yet, more often than we want to admit, we don’t know what we are asking for. We don’t know what God has planned for us. So, what do we do?
Rather than continually asking God for things we want; we would do well to ask that he uses us as he sees fit. We would do well to trust that he will provide, just as he has promised. As we learn to trust him more, knowing he loves us deeply, we can pray more effectively.
I pray we all trust God will provide. I pray we know God loves us deeply. I pray each one of us will choose to seek understanding of God’s plan for us and seek to be used by God as he sees fit. Trust God will provide. God loves you. Seek understanding. Ask God to use you.
Job 42:1-3
Then Job answered the Lord:
“I know that you can do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.”
Marty Pressey 