There comes a time in our lives where we realize we are at that fork in the road... that fork that we have always heard about. Sometimes we stop, look around, and with care and concern, we begin the evaluation process of deciding which path, the right or left, is the wise path to take. Other times we feel a little 'gutsy' with our decisions, flip a coin (figuratively or literally) and we make the choice of which path to take, and boldly go about our way down whichever path won the coin toss.
Now there are times in which one of these ways always works, but what about 'that time' that comes up in your life where you know you are at a fork in the road and you don't have the nerve to enact the coin toss method, and yet the evaluation method seemingly gets you nowhere. What then? This tends to be the moments in time where we seek wise counsel and are reminded of scriptures like Psalm 27:14 - "Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord." and Isaiah 40:31 - "but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."
........ but what then? The question that has arisen lately in our life is "What now?" How long do we wait; and what exactly do we wait for? This is, I guess, where the true fork in the road makes itself very apparent. After it seems in my mind as though I have "waited long enough" and I still don't know which path to take, then what?
This is where I truly find what drives my faith. Is my faith based on what I can see and the results that occur or what I know to be true? Hebrews 11:1 defines faith as "the confidence in what we hoped for and the assurance about what we do not see." When the fork in the road is as big as it seems, what in the world does that mean and what does it have to do with making this HUGE decision in my life?!?! This means that in this fork in the road, at this point in my life where I am asking "what now, Lord?", I am to be confident that after prayer and supplication, and all my efforts to truly 'hear' God's plan, sometimes I am to choose one of these paths "on my own." In that choice, though, I am to have FAITH- I am to be confident in what I wish and desire to be around the bend in the path I choose, and I am to be assured that it is the will of God and that He will be glorified in the results of what is beyond the bend in the road that I cannot see.
Sometimes we are to make our own choice because the Lord has set it up that way. We make choices every day that the Lord has made available to us to make "on our own": to speed or not, to exercise, what to eat, to spend time with our family, to worship Him, etc. All of these every day choices, we take for granted and we forget their magnitude and their ordination to make these choices is from the Lord. It is in the moments where we are fearful of making a so-called "wrong choice" that we want God to "make the choice for us" or to "write it in the clouds" but this is not always His nature. He is a God of choices and a God of grace!
So, Lord, give me the FAITH (confidence and assurance) in my choice of path. Give me wisdom to chose the 'right' one. And just beyond the bend in the road that I cannot see where I stand today, let me not forget to give you the glory in what may appear!
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Rebecca
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