Often you try to determine what is the best course of action. It may deal with a change in your occupation. A change of your residence may be on your mind. A spiritual doctrine could cause deep thinking from one view point to the next. If the facts be known, there is, more often than you would like to admit, deliberations that move your thinking from one area of thinking to another way of thinking; sometimes the extremes between the two vary enormously.
A quote seen in Bits & Pieces summaries the way you may often feel: “If you think you are confused, consider poor Columbus. He didn’t know where he was going when he started. When he got there, he didn’t know where he was. When he got back, he didn’t know where he had been.” Ha! Ha! You smile because that is exactly how so much of your life seems to you. Decisions. Decisions. Decisions. In the midst of them all there is uncertainty and confusion.
The Lord God tells you to wait during those times of soul searching for the right answers/direction in your life. To proceed forward without a clear answer from God, most of the time, results in heartache. So often you want to do something. Just waiting seems so fruitless. You think that if you do anything, that is, anything at all, it is better than just sitting around waiting and doing nothing.
Know for certain that God is not the author of the chaos in your life. 1 Corinthians 13:33 makes that statement very clear, “for God is not a God of confusion…”. You can count on one thing for sure, when confusion comes in your life it is not from God.
So, when determining if you should or should not do something, let the dust settle and seek the Lord’s direction from His word and prayer. God is not the God of confusion
