We’re often looking for God’s will—especially when we’re in a difficult
situation. We wonder, What will happen to me here? Should I stay or
does God want me somewhere else? The only way to know for sure is to
do what He asks you to do right now—the duty of the present moment—and wait for
God to reveal the next step.
As you obey what you know, you will be strengthened to take the next
step and the next. Step by step, one step at a time. That’s how we learn to
walk with God.
But you say, “Suppose I take the first step. What will happen next?”
That’s God’s business. Your task and mine is to obey this day and leave the
future to Him. The psalmist says our steps are “ordered by the Lord” (37:23). This
day’s direction is all we need. Tomorrow’s instruction is of no use to us at
all. George MacDonald said, “We do not understand the next page of God’s lesson
book; we see only the one before us. Nor shall we be allowed to turn the leaf
until we have learned its lesson.”
If we concern ourselves with God’s will and obey each day the directions
and warnings He gives, if we walk by faith and step out in the path of
obedience, we will find that God will lead us through this day. As Jesus put
it, “Tomorrow will worry about its own things” (Matt. 6:34).
Blessed is the person who finds out which way God is moving and then goes in that direction. (RBC)
