Let God Do His Thing
Ever have God answer your prayers but not exactly the way you wanted them answered? Maybe you asked for more patience and God gave you more trials to build patience in you? Or maybe you prayed for God to bless you financially. But instead of getting a raise at work, you get laid off, only to then get a better paying job down the road. There’s a reason why the Bible says that God’s ways are higher than our ways (Isaiah 55:8-9). He doesn’t do things the conventional way. He does it in a way that requires our faith to be put into action!
A couple of days ago I was reading 2 Kings chapter 5. In this passage, Naaman, a man with leprosy hears about the prophet Elisha and his ability to heal through the power of God. Naaman then goes to visit Elisha in Samaria, and stands outside his door. Elisha sends a messenger to tell Naaman the following, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean” (2 Kings 5:10). Instead of obeying, Naaman leaves in fury and complains. He responds by saying, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper” (2 Kings 5:11). His servants then stop him and tell him that all the prophet asked of him was to wash himself in the Jordan and he would be made clean. A simple request really. He then goes into the Jordan, dipping in seven times and comes out completely healed. Amazed, he goes to find Elisha again and says, “Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant.” Elisha however refuses the gift and tells him to go in peace. (2 Kings 5:15-19).
Can you relate to Naaman here too? I know I do! How many times have we told God to do things in our timing and our terms? How many times have we complained when God told us to do something knowing that He knows what’s best for us. If you could see me right now, I’m raising my hand up high in the air. What I want you to take away from this isn’t that we’re a bunch of disobedient heathens, but instead that we need to be quick to obey when God gives us a word. It may take seven tries, months maybe years until He finally gives us our miracle, but we can’t give up now! Not when we could be at the brink of an answered prayer. So next time God says something to us, let’s raise our hands up in surrender and Let God do His thing. Trusting that even when the way He does things makes no sense to us, it’ll all work out for our good.