Your Wish Is My Command

About a few months ago I started to stress out more than I have ever stressed. I had been pursusing a few options for housing, but nothing too serious. Finally I decided to follow one lead and attempt to sign a lease. Right before I signed the lease at Tillman place I received a phone call about an opportunity to live at the ridge. I held off signing the lease until I could find out the details about living at the ridge. I had many discussions with my dad over which housing the option was better a fit and finally decided that the ridge was a place for me. When I told my friends living at Tillman place that I was going to live at the ridge, they tried to find a replacement for my spot. The night before going to sign a lease for the ridge I got a call from some random guy, he told me that he was going to live in the quad missed signing up for housing and had to live in the ridge instead. What I didn’t realize was that I was taking his spot on the lease. This left me with zero options for housing and one ticked off dad. It was getting towards crunch time and I still didn’t have a place to live. I started to worry that I was going to be stuck with on campus housing, which normally isn’t bad but I was trying to obtain residency which mean that I needed to rent an appartment for a whole year. Around this same time I was reading in Matthew when I stumbled across a verse that I had never noticed before. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8) That seemed like a pretty silly verse to me but I figured that if it’s in the Bible then it must be true. That night I started to pray that God would answer my housing needs.

After a couple weeks of praying I still was nowhere near finding a place to live. Later that night I was talking to one of my friends about walking in God’s will and just going where He leads us. This made me think about what I was doing with housing. I kinda used that verse to say that God was just going to place me in an appartment without me doing anything. Boy was I wrong!!! To have faith means that you need to take risks, take chances. If you walk in the Lord’s steps He will guide you where you need to go. He will either close doors that you are headed towards or open ones. I wasn’t trying to advance my situation with housing and thats why I wasn’t getting anywhere. So from that night on I started pursuing other housing options knowing that if I was going the wrong way that I would know it wasn’t the right way to go.

So now I was praying for God to give me an appartment and I was searching for one too, He was surely going to grant my wish now. Again wrong!! Thats when I stumbled upon John 15:7 which again made me re-think the whole faith issue. That’s when I realized that I wasn’t believing my own pray, I didn’t truely think that God would grant my wish. That night when I prayed I truely believed that God could easily find me housing if that’s where I needed to be. It was the first time that I thought that my prayer would be answered. The next day at Zaxby’s I asked someone if they knew of anyone who needed a roommate for next year. He told me that Mike Hawkins was looking for one and was living at the ridge. I immdiatley thanked God for answering my prayer. Mike is my small group leader and a good friend, he also signed the lease for the appartment a month before I even approached him. God knew all along where I was going to live next year but wasn’t going to reveal it to me until I showed a little faith in Him.

Faith is so important when we have a relationship with our Lord, “without faith it is impossible to please God”. Faith always involves two steps; The first requires action from you and the second requires you to take a chance and truely believe that it will happen. When you walk in God’s faith and follow his will, there is nothing that you can’t accomplish (with His assistance) My nightly prayer is that His will be done in my life and that I will know if I am following the right path to achieve His will, this can range from purusing a girl to what major I should be in to how to create a lasting friendship with a kid from YoungLife. What I’m trying to say is that God will always steer you in the right direction if you have faith, but He will never show how to get to your goal all at once. In Psalm 119:105 it says that the word is a LAMP not a spotlight. Each step will be revealed but there is no need to worry about your final destination until that is the last step.

Ask and you WILL recieve, seek and you WILL find, knock and the door WILL open. Follow his will and you can’t go wrong, cause remember your wish is His command.
God Bless

(eventually I will write a post before 2:45 a.m.)

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