Make it easy.

The theme of today's BSF lesson, again, is that God will do the work for you--make it easy to serve and delight in Him--if only you believe in Him. Through Isaiah, he tells the people that He will direct His wrath to their enemy Assyria's destruction. Isaiah 10:25-26: "The Lord Almighty will lash them with a whip, as when he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb; and he will raise his staff over the waters, as he did in Egypt." (He fought Gideon's battle for him at Midian, and he parted the Red Sea for Moses.)


This is what I want, of course. For God to make it easy. After the Next Generation Mentoring retreat, I told a friend that I wished Lee was in a Christian program like this one. That way, we could both be learning about God, and both be applying what we learned to our marriage. Instead of it just being me. She agreed that she'd like that for her marriage, too. "But that's not the world I live in," she said, a little bitterly. 


God is saying: Trust in Him, and He'll make it easy. How does that apply here? What I see, what I'm dealing with, is so limited. I want to change my life, be a better wife, but I feel limited by finances, limited by my own selfishness, and limited by Lee, who's not working on his end of things, as far as I know. 


God says trust in Him, and He'll fight the battle. Jesus Christ, who is even now sitting on His throne, intervenes in our lives through the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:30-36). My part in this is: Trust Him. 


Lord, I even need You to help me with trusting You. I need You to remind me of this concept, and then help me to believe it. I want to hand my marriage, my finances over to You. I pray that You will bless Lee. I also hand over Sara, who I pray will have an experience with Jesus by February 5. I pray that You will show me an opportunity to write a book that glorifies You by September 2011. Amen