Good Morning Girls!  Let's continue with our closer look at Psalm 119:25-32 in the Message Translation.  Todays verse is Barricade the Road that Goes Nowhere........

Unfortunately I have learned over the years that there is more than one road that goes Nowhere.  In fact, I have traveled down many of them!  Praise God!  I am learning.  Each year I find that I have traveled less down the road to Nowhere and more down the road to Somewhere.

No one wants to travel the road that goes Nowhere; yet many of us do.  What can we do to prevent that from happening?  

I don't know all the answers, but I have a few.  Let me share some lessons I learned the hard way........

When we are faced with trials and disappointments often the first thing we do is to start asking questions.  "Why did my dad die?"  "Why are we not able to pay our bills?"  "Why is this taking so long?"  "When is this going to end?" "Where is God in all of this?"  "How did we miss God on this?"  "Why is this happening to us?"  "What did we do wrong?"  How can we make it right?"  Who....What....When.....Where......Why......How......Oh such honest and sincere questions.  Unfortunately they all lead to the same place.

The road to Nowhere.........

The more trials I go through the more I learn that there are just some things that are too great for us to understand.  The less time I spend asking questions that I may never know the answers to, the more time I can focus on what I do know; which is that God is good, faithful and just.  He will never leave me or forsake me.  He has good plans for me.  Plans to prosper me.  Plans to use me.  Plans that will completed by Him.  Plans that will be fulfilled even though I have gone down the road that goes Nowhere a few (too many) times.

The more I have learned to trust in the Lord, the less concerned I am about the Who, What, Where, When and Why.  I trust that if I am supposed to know the answers to any of these questions the Lord will show me.  If I did in fact make a mistake, if there is action I need to take, if there is a wrong I need to right, I trust He will show me. (you have no idea how bad I wanted to make that last line rhyme, but chose not to) 

He is not a God who sits on the throne holding the answers in his hand just waiting til we say the magic words before he releases them.  No!  A just God would not do that.  And since we know he is a just God, and everything he does is fair (Deuteronomy 32:4), we can trust that if we need to know the answers he will give them to us!

Girls, next time you find yourself filled with questions and no answers stop yourself dead in your tracks!  Understand that you are going down a road that leads Nowhere!  Keep doing what you know to do and trust God with the matters that are too great for us to understand!

Psalm 131:1 I don't concern myself with matters too great or too awesome for me to grasp!

Love, Grace, and a concern free day to you all-
Jen