Trust and Obey

My grandmother’s favorite hymn was “Trust and Obey.” As a little girl, I liked the hymn just because she did. Now that she’s gone, its beautiful simplicity and her memory endear it even more to me.

Trust and obey, for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus.

Sometimes, however, that faith gets tried with fire.

As a missionary wife and mother, my grandmother experienced death threats against her husband, buried her firstborn son in South America, and before her own home-going much later in life, suffered the debilitating effects of Alzheimer’s.

Trust and obey?

Last week, author and teacher Dr. Dennis E. Hensley or “Doc Hensley” served as keynote speaker at the Florida Christian Writer’s Conference where he challenged writers to pursue their call, regardless of the doubts they have or “giants” they might face. He shared from God’s Word in Deuteronomy where God clearly mapped out the battle plan for Israel to conquer the Promised Land. God told Israel to go and take it, but the people focused so much on the impossible-looking details of the task that they refused. In consequence, all but Joshua and Caleb died in the wilderness and missed out on God’s best blessings.

“We don’t need to know God’s plan,” Doc Hensley said. “We just have to obey his orders.”

How God orchestrates his end-goal is for him to decide. We just have to take the next step and then the next one after that, in child-like obedience.

What “orders” has God given you today? Are you willing to obey them, regardless if the details look possible? 

Trust and obey.

Kristen

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