What God is Teaching Me

God really spoke to me today while I was reading "My Utmost for His Highest" Today's passage was about waiting on God's will for your life and the importance of waiting for God's timing.

This is what the passage for January 4th says:

Why Cannot I Follow Thee Now?

"Peter said unto Him, Lord why cannot I follow thee now?"

John 13:37

There are times when you cannot understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill it in, but wait. The blank space may come in order to teach you what sanctification means, or it may come after sanctification to teach you what service means. Never run before God's guidance. If there is the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt--don't.

In the Beginning you may see clearly what God's will is--the severance of a friendship, the breaking of a business relationship, something you feel distincty before God is His will for you to do, never do it on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will end in making difficulties that will take years of time to put right. Wait for God's time to bring it round and He will do it without any heartbreak or disappointment. When it is a question of the providential will of God, wait for God to move.

Peter did not wait for God; he forcast in his mind where where the test would come, and the test came where he did not expect it. "I will lay down my life for thy sake." Peter's declaration was honest but ignorant. "Jesus answered him. . . The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied Me thrice." This was said with a deeper knowledge of Peter than peter had of himself. He could not follow Jesus because he did not know himself, of what he was capable. Natural devotion may be all very well to attract us to Jesus, to make us feel His fascination, but it will never make us disciples. Natural devotion will always deny Jesus somewhere or other.

This is such a great reminder of just how important it is for us to wait for God's timing, trust God's will for our lives, and how important it is for us to know who we really are. God loves us all very much, and He has a divine plan for each of our lives...Lets put our focus back on Him

~Matt