Wait For God(Part One)

Can i truly say I follow God? Can I boldly say i Know how to trust Him without consulting my feelings, my friends and job and my senses?

God intended through Moses to teach His sons(Israel) to follow Him to a place they'd never known. Moses did not know the end of the journey but He obeyed God's instruction. Not even did he know there was a road in the Red Sea, he didn't have prior knowledge on the path to follow and God who reveals in bits only said to him to take the Israelites to a place of worship...

Most times God only issues a command, ours is to obey to the latter.He may never unveil the end of the matter(I am sure He doesn't)because He wants us to learn complete and total-without figuring out alternatives-dependence on Him.The journey will always look clueless,long,lonely and dark.On that path if God-led is a God trailing and blazing ahead,making road marks and solving the labyrinth ahead.

We can never say we know Him till we learn to wait, stay quiet and follow as He's instructed.God hates to see his sons with other options especially when He has given directives and issued a command-to wait.We have become a people wired by the world's standards to subtly say;"Heaven helps those who help themselves" and we overly conclude that a man who puts all his eggs in a basket is not only lazy but unwise.

In the principles of God's kingdom,the above quote is erroneous and worldly.The world will never follow God for his ways are senseless and past finding.His word knows to say'"those who wait on Him will never see shame"...it takes a "learner" to follow God.A learner is one willing to depend on someone with more knowledge to teach him,a learner is ready to look "unintelligent" just to acquire and garner information,he learns patiently. A learner always runs back for instruction,he is desperate and knowledge savvy.

Isn't it the way God desires all His sons should be?A servant will not know more than his master so will mankind never exceed God.Our entirety is from Him and because he made us-never forget we are the sheep of his pasture-,he requires that we acknowledge Him as the All-knowing,a God that sees the end from the beginning.

It's interesting to note that we have a Father who permits our choices,he watches us make decisions we feel are right and harmless in our eyes and if we are sincere,most of our choices have driven us out of God's plan...Selah.

I pray you stop and ponder...you will and can never force God into your plans,Never!You can only coat God on it,you can make all your plans look plush and seamless(godly as well) but I bet you,God is not present.You can erect towers like Babel,you may claim you prayed and God spoke but I assure you they are fleshy,human-orchestrated projects.
God desires-no doubt- that we excel and be masters of our vocation and purposes.It was His original plan to see man rule,dominate and become masters over the earth until man fell beneath the plan(to sin).But with or without the fall of man,God did not create(even the first Adam)man to be his decision maker outside of Him(God).No man should say;"It's my life and i decide what goes on here."From Genesis till now,God wants to be and He remains the Only final say over all things.God will never share his glory with a selfish intention because he knows the heart of man.As beautiful as the tower of Babel seemed,as magnificent as the wall of Jericho were and as influential and powerful as Egypt was,GOD knew that none of them could bear His glory neither were they erected to glorify God but man.We are too fond of charting our path,building our thing and making a way for our selfish ego then we claim "God said"or "To God's glory,i did this".

Take a deeper look at the million inexperienced Israel leaving a plush land(Egypt)to the unknown,we'd perceive a complete reliance on a God that spoke years before to Abraham,Isaac and Jacob(Israel),we'd see that God heard their anguish and came speedily to their rescue.These millions are like a throng of us today faced with loads of pain,burdens and fears also crying out for His promises to be fully accomplished in our time-but our biggest problem with God is our "smartness"(so we think).We always have a Plan-B as we wait for God,we figure out our jobs,marriage,aspirations and then we try to drag God along-he can not be pushed.
The Israelites left Egypt like "zombies".They initially were like "cowards" without a road map,like an old blind man with a cane waiting for a guide to help him trace his steps.Not that God planned for them to look foolish or vision less,No,he only used the Exodus march to prove to them that He is the author of their lives,their Father,a faithful guide and the Almighty whose government can neither be challenged nor overthrown.
God made the heavens and the earth and all things(even the age old devil was created by him)on the surface of the earth not to mention the things beneath.God knows what we will never know and he sees ahead of time(never forget times and seasons are with men for God sees a thousand days of man as a day).God is Omniscient-no scientific evolution can define His existence-.He is Omnipotent-He is here and now,he is everywhere,he is all things to all men,He is much more than we can define Him to be,He existed before the world was formed,he creates one today and takes another off the earth in split seconds.He has the power over man's breath even animals,He can over throw kingdoms and thrones in a day and He can shut the devil out of our plans.He is also the same God we take for granted,what a pity!
He is a God that looks on mankind in love,very slow to anger and plenteous in mercy and he says to one come and to another go.He is matchless and powerful.Why will we not submit to a God that can withdraw our resources in a day if he had to?we joke with a God that kills and makes alive,a God that can topple a nation's economy in a day and make the poorest of nations rich.He is that God we must revere.Not even Moses knew the end yet he wisely obeyed.That obedience
leads to trusting God alone above human pressure.Trusting God requires shelving our substitutions and eliminating our plans.We may seem stupid to depend on God when "your peers"are ahead of you but I believe in a God that can eventually make a man a head over a people(you can overtake you mates if God wants that for you) that started the race of life...
Does God intend to make us look clueless?No.But we will only know his plans for our lives when we his Sons learn to wait,remain still till he gives a GO-Ahead-then our plans will be wrapped up in Him when we allow Him make the plans.