Again and again I come to what I like to think of as “a fork in the road” in my spiritual life. I’m faced with a situation that wants to draw me into fear and dread. Maybe it’s a phone call, maybe it’s something I’ve done or said or maybe it’s just something that’s happened. My initial reaction is to worry and try my best to “fix” whatever the situation is. If there’s no way I can fix it, I’m often left with worry. The fork becomes the choice to either cave into worry or to commit it to God and trust that “He is able to do exceedingly more than I could ever ask or imagine!” The crucial part of this is what I do in the first few minutes. I need to immediately commit it to the Lord and lay whatever it is before his throne of grace. I need to confess that I am powerless to do anything and that it’s in His hands. A neat part of this life situation is that as I commit things to Him, one after another, it becomes a habit and the “natural” choice. The best is that the harder the challenge, the greater the miracle. The more dire the situation seems, the more God is glorified and I’m once again blessed to know that I serve an all powerful, all loving, faithful, awesome Abba father!
