I woke up this morning wondering
What else to do, where next to go.
I’ve done all I know, been everywhere I can
Looked high and low yet my eyes starve: My
Dreams, not yet in sight. I woke up wondering
Should I get up, dress up and get out as usual
Or just exploit my condition; lay back, let things
Roll as they are wont, after all, my bit is done?
Tempted, yet I woke up this morning wondering:
Lord, what would You have me do? How would You
Have me attend to all that today brings my way?

Food For Thought: A significant percentage of my life has been spent waiting on the Lord, from one thing to the other, through different stages. There have been times God said it’s time and I am fixing to move but silence surrounds my expectation and preparation. God seems to suddenly withdraw and not a word, not a sign that says, “Go ahead,” or “Change of plan: unpack.” I realized that those times it appears that God is silent are when anxiety can sneak in and worry one to death but my consolation has always been that God is able to finish whatever He started. In such times, we must wean ourselves from the desperation to hear from God which the enemy can exploit with strange voices and signs that appear like God’s. Anxiety makes us prone to deception. Instead, let us lean into God. Let His peace wrap its arms around us and keep us still, knowing that God is alive, God is at work, and God is faithful to complete whatever He starts. God not saying or showing anything specifically to us when we expect doesn’t mean He is not working on it. God’s silence after His word is delivered means He is touching everyone and everything that is instrumental to the accomplishment, in ways only He can. He is working wonders unseen in more ways than you and I could ever imagine or accomplish – this is my true life experience. When God and all appear to be silent: peace be still and know that He is and ever will be  – God.

Scripture: So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. Luke 11: 9.

Prayer: Dear Lord, oftentimes, I am at loss of where to go, what to do, and how to go about them because I don’t want to offend and I don’t want to lose or cause pain for me and for others: in those times when I find myself at the junction of confusion, light up my path and guide my feet, amen.