Am I In the Way?

Jaime Wiebel — Fri, 22 May 2015 01:54:00 +0000

My family and I have recently been going through a bit of a
transition period. My husband and I have talked about this, prayed about this,
and mulled the conversation over and over again.

Every time we wanted to go through with “next step things”
we always had a “but what if” pop into our conversation.

“But
what if the kids won’t be okay…”

“But what if it doesn’t work out…”

“But
what if the kids don’t behave…”

“But what if we don’t have a peace about it…”

“But
what if the change is too much”

But what if… But what if… But what if… Became our song. It became our family anthem.

On and on this went for about three years. Until one day I
was listening to a preacher speaking on the subject of change. They said,
“Today is a new day, you need a new song.” Psalm 40:3 says
He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God, many will see and
fear and will trust in the Lord.

My husband came home from work that day and I said to Him.
“We need a new song. We need to turn the page.”

What we needed was to stop embracing the “but, what if’s” in
our lives and completely turn them over to God.

What it came down to was our underlying fears. Isn’t fear
often times the driving force behind our hang-ups. We say, “I would do that or
I want to do that next thing but what if… something doesn’t go right. What if
something happens that we are not prepared for?”

We
fear the change. We fear the unknown.

We decided to hang our “but what if’s” up. We decided it was
time for a new song. We decided it was time to TRUST GOD and HIS PLAN, not our
own. Proverb 3:5-6 says, Trust in the
LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His
will in all you do, and He will make straight your paths.

We decided to go for it. We decided to jump in with both
feet and land on the solid foundation of a GOD who is the rock of our
Salvation. Psalm 62:6 He alone is my rock and
my salvation, my fortress where I will not be shaken.

We turned our song from but what if… it
doesn’t work out

to… GOD WILL WORK IT OUT AND IT WILL BE
GREAT.

Romans 8:28
says and we know that for those who love God all things work together for good,
for those who are called according to His purpose.

So we turned our, “we can’t figure this out” over to
God. We trust, if we seek His will, and
ask Him to serve His purposes through our lives knowing that for Him nothing is
too hard, that he will straighten our path.

Sometimes we have to get our excuses out of
God’s way so He can do His work through us.

We had to ask ourselves these great BIG questions.

DO WE TRUST GOD? DO
WE BELIEVE HIS PROMISES TO US? DO WE BELIEVE THAT HE IS FAITHFUL?

YES! YES! YES!

Then what if’s became… God is faithful. God blesses us for
being obedient and trusting Him. God leads the way. God equips us for His work
no matter where or what He is calling us to do.

Our problem with fear does one thing, it wraps around us. It
grips us. It even sometimes paralyzes us from moving forward.

When we release those fears to God and let Him take them.
Let Him free us from the bondage. We have the open arms to embrace the next
thing He has for us.

Now we move forward, not because of what we have done but
what He has done through us and in us. Not because of our strength, but His
strength being perfected in our times of weakness.

Today we sing a new song, a song of praise to the One who
puts a song in our heart.

Psalm 98:1a A Psalm. O sing to the Lord a new song; for He has done
wonderful things.

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