It’s always really cool when you here God speak to you in your daily life. Whether it’s through His word or the silent whisper of the Holy Spirit, God always guides us to where he wants us to be. My mom always calls theses things “total God moments” which really is what they are. I’m writing this post to share with y’all my “total God moment” that I had last night in the first couple hours of 2018.
Last night, as I looked back on the past year of my life, I saw one thing that was consistent throughout all of it: WANT. The want to fit in, the want to have fun, the want for material things, etc… I’ve had all of these wants for so long and yet they never seemed to go away, even if I did fulfill some of them. I can see now that the source of a lot of sadness in my life came from desiring all these things. If I couldn’t get them, I was upset and if I did get them I was let down. It was my pursuit of these worldly things that stopped me from being the best I could be in Christ. This is when the “total God moment” comes in.
I sitting down thinking of these things when God whispered to me Psalm 23. “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul.” Now this Scripture is often called overused kind of like Phillipians 4:13 or John 3:16, but I can personally say they still have power. God had just crushed my outlook on life. Basically, if the God of all the universe is guiding my life, what should I want for? I know it’s easier said then done, but from now on when I find myself wanting I will think of that Psalm: “I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
-Trevor Pierce
