He comes where he commands us to leave.<\/b> If when God says, \u201cGo,\u201d you stay because you\u2019re concerned about your people at home, you rob your loved ones of the teaching of Jesus himself. When you obey and go, trusting God with the consequences, the Lord himself ministers to those you leave behind, just as he came to \u201cteach and preach\u201d in the disciples\u2019 cities after they\u2019d set out in his service. As long as you refuse to obey, you\u2019re in his way.<\/p>\n
Watch out if your idea of duty begins to compete with your Lord\u2019s commands. If you find yourself saying, \u201cI know God told me to go, but my duty is at home,\u201d it\u2019s an indication that you don\u2019t believe Jesus means what he says.<\/p>\n
He teaches where he tells us not to.<\/b> Are you teaching where God has told you not to, playing the amateur providence in other people\u2019s lives? Are you so noisy in instructing others that God can\u2019t get anywhere near them? We have to keep our mouths shut and our spirits alert. God wants to instruct his children in the ways of his Son. He wants to turn our times of prayer into mounts of transfiguration. We won\u2019t let him, because we think we know what he\u2019ll do. When we\u2019re certain of the way God is going to work, he will never work in that way anymore.<\/p>\n
He works where he sends us to wait.<\/b> \u201cI am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high\u201d (Luke 24:49). Wait on God, and he will work. But don\u2019t wait sulkily just because you can\u2019t see an inch in front of you! Are you detached enough from your inner hysterics to wait patiently on God? Waiting on him doesn\u2019t mean sitting on the sidelines with your hands folded. It means doing what you are told, in joyful obedience to him.<\/p>\n
These are phases of God\u2019s ways we rarely recognize.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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