Here's the challenge: if you are single mom and you are struggling financially, how do you follow God through that? You simply live as a woman who is confident that God is with you.
What do you do when you have lost your job? You simply live as a man who is confident that God is with you.
What do you do when your marriage is starting to rattle and come apart and you are not sure what to do? You live as a person who, in those circumstances, is confident that God is with you.
If you are a teenager and you're dealing with teenage stuff and no one seems to understand you, what do you do? You simply live as a teenager who is confident God is with you. At school when no one seems to be a Christian but you, and there is no reward for being a Christian, what do you do? It's not easy, but it is simple: you go to school day after
day after day as someone who is confident that God is with you.
You won't see it. You won't feel it. You won't hear it. You may not even know it, but here's the promise, "I will never leave you or forsake you. Period. Trust me. Follow me. Just do the next right thing, because I am with you."
OH, NO YOU DON'T
Do you know what God wants to accomplish through you? No, you don't. Do you know how many people God wants to influence through you? No, you don't. Do you know what God is up to in your life? No. I mean, you think you do every once in a while, but you don't know.
Do you know what hangs in the balance of your decision to wake up every single day and live as somebody, who is you, who is confident that God is with them? Do you know what hangs in the balance of every one of your decisions? No, you do not.
But I can promise you this. You do not want to wake up one day and look back and wonder. You do not want to come out on the other side of a valley or a dip or a breakup or a health issue or a financial issue and look back and wonder. You do not want to come out on the other side and look back and think, "Hmm. I wonder what God might have done, if during that time when he seemed so silent, during that time he seemed so inactive, I wonder what God might have done or been up to if I had simply woke up every day and just done what anybody in those circumstances would do who was confident that God was with them.
We do not know what hangs in the balance. That is why when you don't know what to do, you just do what anybody who was you would do if they were absolutely confident that God was with them. You just wake up every day and say, "Today God, I don't know the future. I don't know what you are up to. I can't explain this. This is a pit day. This is a setup day. This is a frame day. This is a forgotten day.
Today, all I want to do is, I want to get to the end of this day and I want to have done what anybody who was me with my circumstances who was confident that you are with me.
God is with you. Read that again. God is with you. It's better than that. God is in you. It's better than that. If you are a Christian, you have been placed into God. There is no reason to fear, because your heavenly Father is with you. You have no idea what he is up to and you have no idea what he wants to do through you.
Joseph died and he never, ever knew what God was fully up to. But somehow by God's grace, he went through his entire life and he simply did what anybody who was him would do who was confident that God was with them.
God is with you. Why not live like it? God is with you. Why not decide like it? God is with you. Why not respond like it? God is with you.
Final question: how would a man or a woman in your circumstances act today, if you were absolutely confident God was with you? Then just do that.
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