Bibledoorajar Speaks of Faith's Direction

     During the past week, I have been helping my eleven year old great niece think through her speech topic for the  Leadership Training conference coming soon in Dallas. The topic the participants were given was "Give It Up" based on the passage in  Luke 14: 33 in which Jesus details the kind of disciple He desires. As she developed her speech she focused on making decisions that would be in God's will and that would bring glory to Him. What if she had to select one activity over another? How would her faith and her walk with God be involved? Which way would bring glory to God?
      In the story of Moses, we are reminded of how God is involved in matters and of how the way we attempt to handle something may have to be "adjusted".  The book of Hebrews says that Moses accepted his fate with the Hebrews by faith. But faith in God got adjusted when he chose to take matters into his own hands. God had to act to protect His own glory and He did this by allowing not only the Egyptians to know that Moses had gone about suffering with the people the wrong way. but  also the Hebrews. 
    This brings up the difficulty Christians sometimes have of choosing the best route: waiting on God in faith. Waiting on God is hard sometimes. Especially if it becomes apparent that you are not going to get to do something for Him or His kingdom in the way you thought it would happen. Once Moses became aware that everyone knew what he had done he fled. We get to see just where God took him to wait and just how long it would be before God would be ready for Moses to take action in the way that God wanted it done. God's action would not involve murders or assassinations, but the people would go free in a way that they nor the Egyptians would ever forget.
     Faith's direction often involves waiting to see just what God needs from us and just when will that be. The human tendency is to think that time has past, but rather it may be to our advantage to wait for time that is right. Only God knows how to develop the servant that He desires. What is the servant willing to give up? There is probably not anything more fulfilling than waiting to see how God will work something out in our behalf but allowing time after time to pass is sometimes hard. We have a tendency to think that nothing is happening; we are doing nothing for God. But faith's direction is often quiet and internal. And then, just when unexpected, faith presents the opportunity for service and we can accomplish something that brings glory to God.