Understanding other's interaction with your Path

Understanding other’s interaction with your Path.

The Path to "greatness" in the Lord in fulfilling your Duty can sometimes be a hard one to 'swallow'. Many will not understand why you have to do things the way you do them. The reason your path seems so hard. Why you may struggle when you 'supposedly' believe in God. Those closest to you will question you, will wonder 'why', will mean well by telling you- do something else, why struggle, why not choose an easier path for now and try your path later when situations get better. The human reasoning and intellect in you says what they say makes logical sense and they probably are correct. BUT, this is all part of the process the Lord puts you through- to test you, to prove you, whether you'll follow His will. TO prove in you IF you really believe what He told you. You will question yourself- did I really hear from the Lord. You will wonder if your recent mistakes you've made is the reason you seem to struggle or are so far away from achieving your goals. “Is God punishing me?” There is no problem in the questions, because you can't stop the mind from wondering, but don't allow others, even those that love you, produce DOUBT in the path that you KNOW God has given you. Can you hang on by Faith??? Can you allow HIM to accomplish His perfect will in your life?

Remember Job... God said there was none like him on earth... one that fearth God and 'shuns evil'. Job 1: 8. But God chose a path for him that even though he didn't understand, he held on to God by faith in whom God was. The closest people in his life did what they humanly were suppose to do... not understand what God is doing in his life, question what he is doing, and eventually end up trying to produce doubt because of their lack of understanding. His wife told him to curse God and die. His friends doubted, and questioned him left and right. Yes, he complained. He had lost everything. He didn't understand and was suffering. But I love one of the questions God asked Job when He responded to Job: Job 38:2 "Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge?" 4: "where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me if you understand". God’s thinking and ways of accomplishing His will is far beyond ours and who are we to think we know the right path and way to accomplish it…?? Let God be God and you play your role.

One of the greatest compliments I ever received was from someone in one of the closest positions in my life, such as Job. They just couldn't understand why I had spent so many years working on the vision God gave me, because so much time had passed and nothing seemed to come from it. So, after figuring out that they couldn't get me off the vision, they offered ways of compromise- "work on it when you can because you need to take care of these other things. Everyone else does it that way." We think, especially in America, that compromise is good, but I submit to you that Compromise is not apart of God's vocabulary. You should be understanding but never compromise authority, God's will in your life, God's standards, or yourself!! But when decisions had to be made that created a direct conflict of what this person wanted of me and my time compared to the path God had given me, they paid me THE GREATEST COMPLIMENT I could have received- "You act like this thing is your God; you worship it like it's God". Now at the time I had no reaction but I played the statement back in my mind later and of course questioned myself- "have I gone to far?" But I realized some time after, that it was a compliment even though they meant it to be derogatory. If I am consumed in the path, my Duty God gave me such that it can be said by those closest to me that I place my duty above everything around me; I go after it like it were the highest priority to the point where it becomes god on earth, THEN I'm on the right path AND what I'm doing is pleasing to God!!!! The key here is that you have to know that God placed you in that Duty and on that path. You can't make something up for yourself then stubbornly stick to, hope that God will bless it and get on board with you, then claim that every time someone says something against it, they are "hating" or don't want you to succeed. If you lack wisdom and don't understand your path, ask God and seek Him out about it. If you are sincere about doing His will, He will let you know in His own way, but remember James 1: 5-8!!!!

Things to do to keep you on path:
1. You have to be sure 1st that you are on the path God gave you, so that when all the questions come and the advise comes from those around, you can keep your faith in what God is doing with and in you.
2. Understand your relationship with God. Read, study, and listen to understand HOW He 'does things'. The question in everything is how does God feel about this? How does He react to these things? What does HE THINK? And the only way to know and understand Him is #1 through His Word; #2 through your experiences with Him in your life; and #3 other's experiences with Him in their lives and their 'testimonies'. But you cant truly understand #2 or #3 without understanding #1, because without the context of God in His Word, then how you process #2 and #3 is open for interpretation, and human thought- yours or others and you can determine whatever you want and potentially never understand God, yourself, your Path, or the situations around you.
3. Know that you know that you know that God gave you this 'thing' to do, to accomplish
4. At the least hold on by faith that God is, and He wants the best for you, and that even though situations may not make sense. When you question yourself- hold on... just hold on until He decides to change things. It doesn't mean you do nothing. There is STILL work you have to DO. You've got to play your role and continue to move by faith in actions to prove your belief.
5. Better yet is to get to a place mentally, spiritually, and emotionally of Next Dimension of Faith. Don't doubt!!! When you get to this place, fear doesn't exist any longer. You are set in your path and what you SEE around you doesn't matter any more. (see the Next Dimension of Faith Study in this blog for further understanding of your path/mission/purpose on earth)


Lastly, Think on this statement that came to me on 8/5/08:
"You should be concerned if everyone understands you. Greatness requires a path few understand, a mission few know how to establish, and a discipline few will ever realize" ™

> J.Bruce