Daily Power #15

For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. (Prov. 2:6 ESV)

If you haven’t already, someday you’ll find yourself at a crossroads, a place where you have to make a difficult decision about your life’s direction. “Should I stay the course when it would be easier to walk away? Or does God want me to stay put and wait on what he’s doing here?”

Or maybe a better question you should ask is this:

“What does God want me to want?”

What is the one big thing you know God wants you to pursue? Does he want you to spend more time with your family? To stop cutting corners at work? To evaluate an important relationship? It may be that God wants you to stop pursuing your own dreams, to surrender something to him that means a lot to you. Maybe he wants you to stop living for things that don’t matter. Even if the thing you’re thinking of isn’t one of these, I’d be willing to bet you have some ideas of what it is that God wants you to want.

In light of this, where does God want you to stay the course so that ultimately you can tell the story he wants you to tell? Even though it might be easier to walk away, is there some situation where you’re realizing that God wants you to take a stand?

Power Lift

Father, I’m tempted to run away from my problems sometimes in order to avoid conflict. Help me to face what I need to do, and show me where I need to stand strong in my life today.