Waiting for tomorrow

I love this!! I have experienced many moments in my life when God in HIS infinite ways has shown me what he wants me to do, and me in MY stubborn ways have sat on the sidelines and not followed as I should. This hasn't kept me from the blessings of God because he still mercifully chooses to bless me beyond measure. BUT what if I had done what he asked me to do? What if I acted on the signs that I asked for that he showed me?? The blessings could abound much more!

We humans are funny beings... and I say all the time that our God HAS to have a sense of humor. I could just imagine him sitting up in heaven watching us be foolish. We pray and ask God to show us what he has for us, and what do we do? We sit around and dont act on it. I guess we expect God himself to come down and move us around like chess pieces and do the leg work. I say this because alot of times we get our answers and we get what we are asking for, and yet we still question and ponder and delay... we delay the blessings! And further more... imagine the opportunities to use the blessings God has given us once we move on what hes shown us to FURTHER glorify his name!! I dont feel like God gives us the blessings to uplift ourselves, but so that we can use them to testify to his faithfulness!

Example- I prayed for a Godly man in my life.... and he answered with James. And its not to make me look good... but a testimony to what God brought me away from!! God gave me a wonderful man and I am so blessed that God has allowed us to be used together and I cant wait to see how he plans to use us together in the future! I prayed for a blessing and God blessed me and allowed that blessing to be used to lift up His name!!

How foolish of us to ask God to give us our answers and do nothing about them! Especially when we pray for something we want. We pray and pray for an answer and then we get it.... is that they end of the journey? I dare say no!! We have to put our faith into action. Take our answers and follow our faith!

I heard this song on the radio on my way to a meeting this morning and it brought to mind so many situations in my life. Situations where I have prayed and begged God, got my answer and sat and pouted because I just wouldn't do what I was told. I am dealing with a specific situation at the moment. I prayed, "God use me in the lives of these kids." And he answered me with a burden for our girls. We have a women's group and a youth group, all of which our girls can participate. But lets face it... us girls are weird beings lol (in the words of someone I know :P)

But in seriousness... the younger generation of young women behind me have barely any guidance and no clue about the Proverbs 31 woman. And so my prayer became my burden, which transformed into the plan of a "Girls Bible study." And again I come before the throne...."Lord.... I uh... I uh... I dont know if Im the right person... maybe you need to find someone else." SO... here I have the answer I asked for... and I ran from the answer... SHAME ON ME! So now, one of my precious young girls is in trouble. Not that anything I could have done would have changed the particular situation... but what if she had the knowledge.... the awareness of what these behaviors brought? What if someone... anyone had told her that this was a bad road??? What if I could have prevented this... I could spend an endless amount of space with the what ifs. But I can make it MY call to action.

In this scenario... I spent my days saying, "O Ill start planning it tomorrow" and the famous "Im too busy right now." Well... Im out of excuses! What do tomorrow what you can do today! So, no I am in a prayerful position again asking God to show me the who, what, when, wheres, and the hows. I want to be totally led to do today what God has asked. But I refuse to not use to answer he gives me. I cant ask God to show me something and answer my question without my willingness to do something with the answers... TODAY!