Wanting What Seems Good to Him

But if He says thus: ‘I have no delight in you,’ here I am, let Him do to me as seems good to Him.” 2 Samuel 15:26 NKJV

David knew how to trust God with abandon! He knew that his best choice in life was to allow God to do whatever seemed good to Him to do. So often we think we know what is best for us. We think we know what we want our lives to be like. And yet we are not God and we do not possess the capabilities of God. He is omnipresent….everywhere at once. He is omnipotent….all powerful. He is omniscient….all knowing. We are not!!!

What is it this morning that each of us is longing for Him to do? What is it we want? Are we able to do what David learned to do and leave the decisions and directions of our lives in God’s capable hands? Are we willing to admit we really don’t know what is best for us? We really don’t know life as God knows it.

Is it wrong to dream? No! Is it wrong to ask God to give us the desires of our heart? Absolutely not! Is it wrong to want certain things in life? No way! But in the midst of it all, we must admit that God’s ways and thoughts are higher than our own. Anything we can think of is miniscule compared to His vastness and wisdom. So why is it so hard at times to trust God absolutely the way David trusted Him?

Could it be we still fail to understand His heart? We often think God is out to deprive us and hold out on us. We fail to grasp that His plans go far beyond our own. He is a bigger dreamer and a bigger “carry outer” of those dreams then we are. Convinced that we have better dreams and a clearer understanding of how our life should work is the ultimate in pride! No wonder God speaks so much about humbling ourselves before Him. He is not trying to ruin our life, He is longing to enrich it! He is not trying to deprive us, He is passionate about filling and fulfilling us!

Adam and Eve come to mind this morning. God wanted the garden for them and they reached for the fruit. Anything apart from what God intends for us is always a move in the wrong direction. What a shame that we often settle for less than His best. As one author so aptly put it, “We are often satisfied to play with mud pies while God is offering us an ocean side resort!” Anytime I can let Him do to, through, for, and in me what seems best to Him, I am always opening myself up for an unbelievably better life than what I could come up with on my own.

Father, I entrust myself to You today. I cannot possibly know, see, or do more than You. Do what seems good for You to do with me for the rest of my life! Amen.