“See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.” Genesis 19:20

Trust and Obey

My husband had clearly heard God’s will for him. He was convinced of it. I was not. I countered him with reasoning. I resisted the plans of God and substituted what made sense to me and what made me comfortable. I clung to the familiar. I didn’t fully trust either God or my husband. And I was wrong.

Lot is having the same issues in Genesis 19. He wants to take God’s will and alter it to fit his own needs and desires. He wants to compromise God’s intentions. He cannot seem to make a clean break, to die to the flesh, to distance himself from the pride and arrogance of Sodom. He couldn’t quite let go. He could not fully trust and he could not fully obey. He settled for less of God than all God intended.

Circumstances bore out the truth of my husband’s conviction concerning God’s will and even I knew it. I learned great lessons that day. I learned God was for me. I learned to trust Him even when it didn’t make sense. I learned to trust that God could and would work through my husband. 

I also began to see the wisdom and sovereignty of God played out in my life. It was not my place to fit God’s will into my plans. No adjustments for convenience and no compromises for the sake of beloved comforts were needed.

Is it not a little one? A little tweak here, an alteration there, for certainly You could not mean what You said. And yet His perfect will needs no modification or amendment. It is always in my best interest to accommodate myself to His purposes. He says what He means and He means what He says.

My faith was strengthened as I trusted Him and so in faith I was able to fully obey. Obedience brought blessing for that was always God’s intention. My soul shall live in the center of God’s will and ever may I remain at peace in that quiet place.

“Father, You can be trusted. Your sovereign will is full of wisdom. You know what is best for us at all times and if we will but listen and obey, You will lead us into blessing. We will see the glory of Your good plans. In Jesus’s Name, Amen.”