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Stop this! trying to second guess God!
Are you doing what you believe to be from God will? Yet things aren’t working out like you expected? God has a different perspective- a better one in fact, it is okay to question him, but not to doubt and second guess Him. Truth of the matter, we all do it or done it in point of our lives. In his Word he says, ‘My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways are my ways.’
When God told Moses he was going to deliver the Israelites from Egypt, Moses was all for it. But things didn’t go the way he anticipated because Pharaoh made their lives harder for a while. So instead of becoming a hero, Moses lived through a season of being criticised and misunderstood.
Later, when some other things didn’t turn out as Moses expected, he protested, “how can you treat your own people like this?” “Why did you ever send me? if you were going to do this to them?”
(Exodus 5: 22)
You see, Moses didn’t understand the results of his obedience, because God didn’t tell him exactly how things would turn out. Usually our frustrations have little to do with what God does or doesn’t do, and everything to do with our mistaken ideas about what we think he should do.
When you assume, or try to analyse God, you always end up frustrated. Jesus told his disciples, ‘you don’t really know what I am doing, but later you will understand’ (John 13: 7) It’s only in looking back that you see the LORD has led you. He is the best at what he does and his track record proves it.
So trust God and stop trying to second guess Him. If I asked you to build me a boat, and told you how to do the actual design, so you go off to build this boat so I think, yet you come back and you built me a car instead because you thought it would be better, isn’t that second guessing me? When God tells you to do something, it may sound very odd or not right to you, don’t second guess him, trust in him and just do what he tells you. He knows best. If you follow your own will, then you are saying to God that you are doubting his will, distrusting him, and second guessing him, and you would be going by your own will and not his.
Are you doing what you believe to be from God will? Yet things aren’t working out like you expected? God has a different perspective- a better one in fact, it is okay to question him, but not to doubt and second guess Him. Truth of the matter, we all do it or done it in point of our lives. In his Word he says, ‘My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways are my ways.’
When God told Moses he was going to deliver the Israelites from Egypt, Moses was all for it. But things didn’t go the way he anticipated because Pharaoh made their lives harder for a while. So instead of becoming a hero, Moses lived through a season of being criticised and misunderstood.
Later, when some other things didn’t turn out as Moses expected, he protested, “how can you treat your own people like this?” “Why did you ever send me? if you were going to do this to them?”
(Exodus 5: 22)
You see, Moses didn’t understand the results of his obedience, because God didn’t tell him exactly how things would turn out. Usually our frustrations have little to do with what God does or doesn’t do, and everything to do with our mistaken ideas about what we think he should do.
When you assume, or try to analyse God, you always end up frustrated. Jesus told his disciples, ‘you don’t really know what I am doing, but later you will understand’ (John 13: 7) It’s only in looking back that you see the LORD has led you. He is the best at what he does and his track record proves it.
So trust God and stop trying to second guess Him. If I asked you to build me a boat, and told you how to do the actual design, so you go off to build this boat so I think, yet you come back and you built me a car instead because you thought it would be better, isn’t that second guessing me? When God tells you to do something, it may sound very odd or not right to you, don’t second guess him, trust in him and just do what he tells you. He knows best. If you follow your own will, then you are saying to God that you are doubting his will, distrusting him, and second guessing him, and you would be going by your own will and not his.
