Daily Devotion

“You never find God asking persons to dream up what they want to do for Him. We do not sit down and dream what we want to do for God and then call God in to help us accomplish it. The pattern in the Scripture is that we submit ourselves to God and we wait until God shows us what He is about to do, or we watch to see what God is doing around us and join Him.”

Henry Blackaby · Henry T. Blackaby & Claude V. King, Experiencing God: How to Live the Full Adventure of Knowing and Doing the Will of God (1994)

Scripture

John 5:17, 19 Jesus said to them, “My Father is doing things until this very moment, and so I am doing things.” Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself, but he can do what he sees the Father doing, and he will do the same things the Father does.”

Reflection

I often thought that service was about accomplishing certain goals for God, but the Lord reminded me that true service is entering into His already begun plan. When I was eager to draw up my own blueprint, I often overlooked that God was already at work. The core of the calling is not the quantity of action, but the depth of obedience. Learn to let go of your own designs and quietly see, listen, and follow God's footsteps.