Last night was a little rough. Trying to sleep with a cold without the “best sleep you’ll ever get with a cold medicine” was an experience. Now add on an unexpected series of phone calls and texts starting at 2am from a pair of friends needing help. Real serious help.
That is nothing to complain about and actually made me feel honor that they would think of me as someone ready at all times to assist when it really mattered. And you know what? I still do not even know the full story of what was going on … because I did not ask.
The responses from my end were groggy grunts of compliance. The timing nor my level of readiness matter. The tone of a close friend will let you know that real talk is happening and real action is being required of you. You know who the reasonable people are in your life that already think things through and are frivolous in their requests.
Now awake again after some sleep my internal clock is a bit reset and the internal parts of me have reset as well. I awake with a question on my heart asking “Why God Why?” over matters of my own life.
Do you know what He says to me?
He impresses upon me that just hours ago I trusted friends. It was inconvenient timing and an incomplete picture but my response wasn’t full of “why”s but simply “how” can I respond to help. If I can trust friends, mere people, like this why not the God of the Universe with that small level of courtesy?
If I know a friend well enough to not ask for a full picture but just how to help, can I not exercise the same faith with the One I believe is in the past, present and future?
In the middle of the night I did not ask my friends “why did you call me? or what is going on” instead simply “how can I help?”
God asks the same of us. In the midst of my life at the times I have planned to rest or times I think I am too busy fighting of a sickness or something else He simply asks “Trust in [Me] with all your heart; do not depend of your own understanding. Seek [my] will in all you and do, and [I] will show you which path to take. (Prov 3:5-6)”
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