Closed Doors, Clueless Future

Have you ever thought about how much time we spend worrying about tomorrow? When the fact of the matter is that we cannot change one thing about it? I in no way am insinuating that what you do today does not effect tomorrow, quite the contrary. What I am suggesting is that you cannot control what you will encounter tomorrow, you can only deal with what you encounter today.

The more I walk the Christian life the more I understand this principle. Jesus said to not concern yourself with the next day for this day has enough troubles of its own, instead seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and leave the rest to Him. I am getting close to the end of my seminary training and will soon be looking to find a church that is gracious enough to accept me as their pastor. Yet I have no idea where I am going to go. I have already seen some doors closed that I considered real possibilities. But does that really matter? Should it concern me that I do not know where I will go? The spiritual answer is of course no, but the real answer is the same, no!

My responsibility is to encounter every situation today and wisely make decisions according to the biblical principles that I know, trusting that the Lord will lead me in the path that He desires. I can search for the "secret will" of God all day and all I will have is a missed opportunity of life here and now.

God has been faithful my entire Christian life to prevent me from paths that I thought were good, yet were not what He desired. I have been required to make some faith based decisions that did not make much sense but were what seemed best at the time and looking back were better than I even expected.

Does this exclude God's vision and direction for your life? Certainly not! There have been many occasion where the Lord has given me directions concerning months or even a year in advance, but that is rare in comparison to the numerous opportunities presented to me every day to follow what I know is his will in the small, ordinary decisions of life.

The moral of the story, don't take for granted the will of God in the small of life and the will of God in the unknown will be obvious one step at a time.