"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight."   - Proverbs 3:5-6

It’s one thing to know God’s will, but it is a whole other thing to do God’s will. It’s the difference between admiring a person’s generosity to care for the poor and personally writing a big check or volunteering time to support the cause. Knowing is not the same as doing. Knowing becomes an obstacle to doing if it becomes a feel good emotion that intuitively agrees, but never does anything. Better to side with God by doing something and be judged by the world - than to side with the world by doing nothing and be judged by God. Submission to God’s will leads to action.

The Bible teaches us to: “trust in”, “lean not” and “submit to”. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. In the short term, “friends” may question you, but when you know in your heart where God is leading, you go with God. Lean not on your own understanding means you don’t rationalize your way out of doing the right thing. Instead,get under God’s mission and make Him the focus of your faithfulness.

“If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”            - James 2:16-17

Have you totally surrendered to God’s will for your life? Pray that the Lord your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do.