Trusting God in the Everyday

...But the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake; ¹² and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.
1 Kings 19:11b-12

We often are disappointed when things don't seem to go the way we expect. We look for big flashing signs of God's work in our lives and forget that He uses every little thing to mold us into His image. The painful, dry times are often as important as the mountain top experiences where life seems so clear and good. God is always working, but often we find ourselves waiting for great revelations and lose heart when they seldom appear. God does use the major events in our lives, but He is always working in the everyday.

We must learn to trust His infinite wisdom. The Father has a plan for each of us and it will unfold in His timing. We must learn to seek God in the here and now, and in the everyday. Don't look for those mountain top highs, or run from the valley lows. They will come in their time, but stay focused on what the Father is doing in you now. He never stops working in us.

Sometimes we wait on the Lord, but not in the way He has asked us too-trusting Him-but we wait to act because we want a sign, or clarity, or some revelation. If we are always focused on the big things, or the waiting for this revelation we may miss the "still small voice." When God whispers we need to be listening intently in order to hear Him. I think He speaks in a whisper more than we know. Often times the whisper is drowned out by so much chaos as we seek God in our own strength. We can only hear God when we finally set ourselves and our own plans aside and humbly come before Him. We are meant to be in a constant state of listening to the Father.

We are normally in a constant state of trying to figure this or that problem out. The Father doesn't want us to solve our own problems, but to put them in His hands for His help. We are the ones who create the problems when we try to live in our own strength. How can we then solve the problems in that same "strength"? We are woefully inadequate and that is the place our Father wants us. Humbled, and reliant on Him in all things.

Trust His plan for you. Don't try and solve your own problems, but place them in His gentle hands. Meet the Father in the here and now and trust Him in the everyday.