Well, I’m back with another one. And today, I want to talk about walking blind with God.
I don’t know, I couldn’t think of a better title. I wasn’t trying to put a title on it. It’s just something that I’m currently doing, and that was the word that I used for it, so I decided that’s going to be the title of today’s post.
The reason why I am talking about this is because it’s something that I’m trying to practice as well. At every point in my life, I am always on a faith journey, whether for my spiritual life or my finances my career, my business, or whatever it is.
I always have a level of expectation from God, and I am always trusting God to just lead me the right way and also put my faith to work. Lately, I have a lot of things that I believe in God for right now, and some of them are very faith-intensive. I don’t know if that’s a thing, but it’s pulling my faith.
I need to constantly be in a state of renewing my mind reassuring myself and maintaining my faith. And I was thinking about it during my quiet time, and I was like, faith is walking blind with God.
For every time that you close your eyes or you’ve been blindfolded or something, and you can’t see the way, and you’ve maybe had to stumble in the dark to find something, it’s difficult.
It’s not easy, especially when you know that you can see. Now, that’s where the crux of what I want to say is. Sometimes the journey of faith is just so funny because the issue is not trusting God now, at least not in this phase of my life. I trust God. I know that the things that I want Him to do for me, He’s going to do for me in His time.
But the thing is, choosing to ignore my sight, my vision, and trusting to follow God’s way and instruction, now that’s the feat. Work with me here. If you close your eyes and decide to walk around while having someone direct you on how to move, you’re almost tempted to open your eyes so you can see for yourself.
If you open your eyes and see for yourself, you’ll be able to walk faster. You would probably not stumble. It just is supposed to make it easier, right? But the funny thing is, in our faith walk and our journey as Christians, it’s quite the opposite. If you walk with your eyes open, that is when you stumble.
That is when you would make the wrong decisions. And it might be faster because you think that you can see, but then everything that you’re supposed to gain in your journey, you tend to lose it. So for me right now, in all of the things that I believe in God for, if I’m to use my sight to look at it, it feels like I have the solution.
‘Like, this is the solution, right? This is what is going to give me instantaneous results.’But every time that I press in the place of the Spirit, I know that that is not what God will have me do.
Another aspect of faith is not just trust but obedience as well. So I have to obey what I’ve heard in the place of the Spirit and choose to close my eyes, trusting that the person that I’m having led me would not let me stumble. And you know, sometimes depending on the gravity of what you want God to do for you, your faith might be shaky.
I just have to keep reminding myself, focusing on the promises that God has given me to get by. It’s a bittersweet journey, I’m not going to lie, because on some days I’m proud of myself, like, okay, you’re doing great, following God. And on some other days, I’m a bit frustrated, like, can we expedite the process? But overall it’s a journey that I enjoy.
There was something that I heard earlier in the year, during a conference that I attended, that when you’re walking with God in your faith journey, you have to trust him without him giving you the entire picture, because if He does, then that is direction, not faith.
There is a difference when you are walking in faith with God, and when you are following his direction. And I remind myself of that, that everything will happen in due time. What’s a bit funny is, the faith process is the same thing. It’s always the same thing. You have to believe God, trust Him, pray, confess, etc, etc.
It’s just because the situation around you is different per time, that’s why it makes you feel like, this particular faith journey is so much different from the other one. But God has given us the blueprint, and we just have to stick with it.
If you should go by all the other times that you’ve been in this position and God pulls through, you eventually get used to walking blind with God. Because when you do that, you get to the point where you realize that you’re not actually walking blind at all.
You’ve just gone from the point where you see with your human eyes, to the point where you see with the eyes of the Spirit. And that is the best vision of all.
I hope that we all get what we’re looking for and what we’re chasing after and that we get to experience the joy of our victory.
Until next time, remember to spread nothing but love, and keep preaching for the stars.
