WHEN LIFE HAS US PUZZLED

James 1:5-6 NLT If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind.

I saw this photo of two jigsaw puzzle pieces and thought they’re a bit like life when we feel ‘puzzled’ or when we can’t seem to work things out.😊 

We all have times when things don’t appear to want to come together, when we have more questions than we do answers. So what do we do then?

Well there’s only one Person who knows all the answers so we go to Him. The Holy Spirit is our Counsellor and our Helper and He tells us what to do in the verses above. Divided loyalty is when we ask every Tom, Dick and Harry for their input and we become confused. It’s only God’s input we want!

The trouble is, do we ask but then forget to stop and listen for the answer? Do we dash off to do the next thing? Maybe we could all do with learning to give God the courtesy of sitting and listening long enough to receive the answer. It’s a bit like ringing the doctor and asking for advise and then putting the phone down before he draws breath to reply! Or listening to the answer then ignoring the advice!

Have we ever asked God but already decided what we want to do before hand? Or we didn’t like the answer so we delayed doing it?  Jesus said the Holy Spirit would show us things to come, that He would give us wise counsel but He doesn’t always answer on our time table! I heard of one lady who asked the Holy Spirit to speak to her and she waited and waited and had no response so she fell asleep waiting. Later that night the Lord woke her right up, and what she heard changed her life.😊

God does answer us but it may not come when we expect, it may come as an impression to do something, or a verse of scripture or through some other way, but He has promised to answer us, so this is to encourage us to make sure we’re still listening and willing to do as He says, even if it’s not always what we wanted to hear!😊 Amen.

Photo by Vardan Papikyan on Unsplash