So many things have been happening lately, that have continued to confirm that this month’s blog post needed to focus on trust. How do you know when you’ve made the right choice? This is something that I really had to learn and grow through. I went through a season of life when I called my mom a ton to help me make choices. Now, obviously, I still call her for advice from time to time, but I have learned to trust that inner voice of discernment, that dwells and lives within me.
I believe that discernment is a great tool when you are learning to trust. If you’re a millennial, like me, you’re just now getting into the groove of who you are, where you’re going, and what you believe. You may be fresh out of college, or actively working in your career. Either way, each day presents you with choices to be made. As we continue to journey through adulting, those choices become ours to make.
Some of these choices include people. tough choices may include your friendships, significant other, and sometimes, even family. These choices also include things. Things like a promotion, addiction, or maybe opportunity in general. At some point, you’ll find yourself like me, asking if you’ve made the right choice about something occurring in your life. That’s when trust comes in to play.
I find myself praying about any choice that I make. I pray about it, I ask for God’s perfect will and then, I let it go and proceed in excellence. Now it hasn’t always been this way for me, this is just what growth looks like. Even though I’ve got the “pray and wait for peace” step down, that doesn’t exempt me from loosing trust in the choices I make confidently when things get difficult. You see, I too make choices confidently in prayer, seeking God’s will, and then question the choice I made, when things get a little rough. Do you understand where I’m coming from? Can I get an amen?
Here’s the thing though, The same confidence and peace that I had when making the choice in the first place, is still present in the thick of the difficulty I’m facing now that I’m walking in what seems like the aftermath of that choice. We just have to continuously remind ourselves of that when it gets tough. As I began learning what it looked like to trust in God. I had to understand that sometimes, you have to simply bloom where you are planted and honor the experience. We can’t always be looking for the next move when things don’t go our way or how we planned. Instead, we have to trust the experience and know that every good and perfect thing comes from God. He gives us good things and he would never take anything away from you that he doesn’t plan to replace in his perfect timing and way, tenfold.
I encourage you to check out the book entitled , “Trust” by Iyanla Vanzant. Maybe we should start a book club! She illustrates a beautiful point about trust that I’d like to share with you. But first, As you go into to April, don’t forget that the showers, in time, do indeed bring May flowers. We are always being positioned and used for God’s perfect plan and timing for our lives and the lives of others. Trust the choices you make in prayer and in the peace of Christ.
"No matter where or how we live in the world, trust is an essential requirement for human life. Without trust there can be no peace mind. The fours essential trusts; Trust in Self, Trust in God Trust in Others and Trust in life and like oxygen, we can’t live without them."
- Iyanla Vanzant
Joshua 1:9
9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go