saying “yes.”
If you’re like me saying “yes” is easy. I don’t know if it’s because I really do love doing all of the things or because I have a serious case of FOMO (fear of missing out.) I’d venture to say it’s the second one but all I know is that saying “yes” is easy until the person asking me to say “yes” is God.
Sometimes God asks me to do hard things that I don’t want to do. Sometimes all I want to do is hide in my comfortable bubble and not ever have to do things I don’t want to do, but I know that’s not where growth lives. Growth lives in the hard “yes’s” and in the “I don’t know what you’re doing here Lord but I trust you.”
Before Christmas break The Lord asked me to apply for a trip that the rules technically state I am not even allowed to go on. After praying more and more I still felt the Lord telling me to do it. I didn’t have a clue what He was doing and I certainly didn’t want to apply and get rejected!! But he was still asking. I told him alright I don’t get it but I also don’t have to get it; I will say yes and apply. So I did.
and I didn’t get accepted.
OUCH. God why would you tell me to apply for something you knew I wouldn’t get accepted to?!?!
I wanted you to say yes even if it meant you not getting what you thought you were going to get. I wanted to know if you would obey me even if when it’s hard and confusing.
I now see that in applying it was purely out of obedience. It hurt and it sucked but I grew. I got out of my bubble of comfortability and I risked by saying “yes” to something that I didn’t understand. Out of this I have learned so much about myself and what I am truly capable of doing. AND I grew in intimacy with my Father. The Lord has now asked me to apply for another trip and this time saying “yes” was much easier because I know whatever happens he has already gone before me.
Is there something that The Lord is asking you to say “yes” to? Even though it might not make sense or it might not be something you want to do I would challenge you to push into it. Trust me when I say it’s worth it.
