Sometimes I am pretty thick headed – just ask my family. I am also fairly driven by a type A personality – I need to get things done to have a sense of accomplishment.
Do you have any of these tendencies?
The reason I bring it up today is that God has been teaching me that my times in prayer and reading each day should not be about checking things off the list.
If you have been following my ramblings here in this blog for very long, you may remember that I have been in the book of Romans for a couple of years. I don’t read it every day, some days I focus my reading in other books of the Bible, but inevitably, my goal is to make it through the book of Romans.
Here is why it is taking me so long – some days, like today, God stops me and says, “don’t leave that verse until you get it.” Yesterday, I read Romans 11:22-24 (you can read it here). Today as I sat to pray and read, I opened my Bible back up to Romans with the intention of beginning with verse 25. I had an overwhelming sense that I should not read today, but rather simply pray. As I prayed, I kept reflecting back to a phrase in Romans 11:23 from yesterday, “if they do not persist in unbelief.”
We say that we trust God – but do we really? With everything? Or do we set out each day to get things done and then ask God to bless our actions?
I still have a tendency to want to control things and make things happen but God wants me to simply rest in this belief and to trust: God is in control.
God is going to do something amazing today! Do you believe that – or do you persist in unbelief?
Clay in the Hands 
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