Canton Jones, gospel artist, has an album called, “Kingdom Business.” One of the tracks on the album is titled, “My Walk.” The jest of the lyrics is to not concern yourself with what he does or how he does it because at the end of the day, “still we gotta praise Him!” I learned a long time ago not to compare my walk to anyone else’s, but I also learned not to share every detail of what God is doing in my life. While I’m excited about the move of God, everyone else may not be. Just when I think I can share what God is doing, with the very people I think I can share it, I’m proven wrong. It’s those very people that are my friends, but have the hardest time with my journey; my faith walk. I have more support from acquaintenances and strangers than friends and family. Instead of praising God with me for what He’s doing, they get out of their lane and shovel out unsolicited advice and plant seeds of doubt when you clearly know you heard from God in the situation. They are the very ones not walking their own faith walk or following their own advice. In their lives are tore up! Over time I have learned to ask two questions when people give advice I didn’t ask for. “What is the real motive? Why is s/he telling me this?” Sometimes it goes back to them wanting to discourage you because your life is moving ahead while theirs seems to be in an abyss of excuses, lies and denial. You think you’re being cautious, but sometimes you can be overly cautious. Slow and steady is okay, and it allows you to finish. However, sometimes there is no slow and steady with God when he is ordering or reordering your steps. Sometimes He needs you to do it without delay or excuses! In case you didn’t know it, a delayed response to God is disobedience, In any event, maybe, sometimes He may need you to speed up and stop questioning every single thing. I’m sure when I think about how we over think His process and methods, me included, we wear God out! I know He is whupped at the end of the day!
It all goes back to the previous article I wrote, “No Safety Nets Allowed.” I don’t have to have a plan B, C or D because God has plans B, C, D, Z, and everything in between! All I am required to do is to put my trust in Him; put my hope in Him; and put my faith in Him. He’s got this and He’s got me!
As much as I’d like to share the good news of His works in my life; what He’s saying to me…the reality is that I can’t. To those people who over analyze the things of God, guess what? GOD IS NOT COMPLICATED! We make Him complicated! We just over think it! Sometimes we overreact, under-react or don’t act at all! Where is your faith? What is it exactly you are waiting on? Are you waiting on God to speak to you in some BIG BOOMING voice? He could, but it’s not like that. Sometimes it’s just a prompting, an unction if you will, from the Holy Spirit. That quiet, still knowing voice of God may be all you get. In order to get it, you have to have interaction and encounters with God. You have to know it’s Him speaking to you. In John 10:27 it reads, “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.” (NIV) That is what some of my people aren’t getting. They question what God is doing as if I don’t recognize His voice. It is not my first time at the rodeo and this is not the first time God has moved in this way. Your fear will not become my fear; your delay will not become my delay; your no will not become my no. The question becomes, “Will I be ready when He is moving and I’ve heard Him?” I want my answer to be “Yes!” What about you?
Redbone and Rice 