Friday, July 20, 2007

Sublime Trust vs Blatant Laziness

What's the difference between trusting God to provide for you and simply being lazy? I ask this for a reason, of course. Here I sit, in the 3rd month of my job search, and I'm wondering which it is that I'm really doing. Am I being lazy and stubborn by not actively pursuing other jobs in other places because I'm so set on working at MCG? Or is the truth that I'm genuinely led to work there and am trusting that God is going to work it out for me? It's hard to say.

If asked, of course I'll tell you that I'm trusting God to make things work out for me. I'll say that in a second, but how true is that? I'm still anxious about it, though it's not keeping me up at night or making me cry every day like it was. I still am dying to know what's going to happen and am plagued by impatience, but I think I'm trusting God to put the pieces in place for me. I think I am.....or am I just convincing myself of that, because it clearly sounds so much better than saying that I've just been lazy by not doing anything?

When I went to that Joyce Meyer conference last March, one thing she stressed was that yes, all things are possible with God, but He's not going to do things for us that we could just as easily do ourselves. He will pick up where we leave off when things become impossible for us, but He's not going to do it all. Is that what I'm doing here? Is there more I should be doing, or is my apparent inactivity evidence of a peace inside that leads me to wait on God? It's so hard to tell, and it's so important to figure out so that I can fix it if I need to. If I need to get up off my couch and do something, I want to do it. I do, because this is a huge thing and I want to open doors for God to do the things that are impossible for me, but I don't want to try to force something and show that in reality, I'm not trusting Him at all. Does that make any sense at all?

1 of your thoughts:

Beccalynn said...

Just ask Him, Jess. He'll show you what boat you're in. He'll show you what to do next.