Just yesterday, I wrote about how the name Yahweh Yireh causes you to trust. If you don’t know, when you are leading a spiritual lesson, you get put through a spiritual test. Because I was asking you to trust, I had to learn to trust.
Today, my precious husband went for a CT scan. We are praying it’s the last scan in this journey we have been on since November. Now we have to wait a week for the results. Of course, he asked the technician, like we all do, if they saw anything. The guy couldn’t or wouldn’t tell him anything.
But after the scan, my anxiety started to rise. The worry crept in. I could feel it rising from the pit of my stomach, up to my chest, then my throat. I stopped and prayed. I told the little black dot in my kitchen to turn on my worship music and started the kitchen cleaning and worship experience.
If you don’t know me that well, then you don’t know that I love music. I mean, I LOVE music. All kinds of music. And my kitchen—that is my sanctuary. That is the place where I sing at the top of my lungs, where I have poured out my heart and my tears to God on more than one occasion…a week. That is where I meet God daily. And that is where he speaks to me, through music.
Wouldn’t you know the first song that came on says, “I trust in God, My Savior. The one who will never fail.” I stopped and giggled. I said, “Amy, you were just telling your group about trust. Here is where the road meets the pavement. You gotta trust.”
Then the next song, “Miracle after miracle, Open door after open door, Get ready because another one is on the way.”
Then I laughed. Anxiety put to rest. Trust restored. I know, my God’s got this. I don’t know what the results of the scan are. I don’t know if we are getting off the cancer roller coaster or if our trip is being extended. I don’t know if the “hairball,” as I like to call it, has grown or if it’s gone.
What I do know. God is good. God has a plan. And EVEN IF the scan isn’t what I want it to be, God is still good.
In the Bible, there is this little book called Daniel. There is a story about three guys, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These guys worshipped God despite the king demanding that all men bow down to him. They worshiped God in spite of the fear of being thrown into a fiery furnace. Their faith was so strong that they knew that our Yahweh Yireh would rescue them.
Daniel 3:16-18 “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God whom we serve is able to save us. He will rescue us from your power, Your Majesty. But even if he doesn’t, we want to make it clear to you, Your Majesty, that we will never serve your gods or worship the gold statue you have set up.”
When you are faced with trials of any kind, and you want God to provide, do you place the limitation of “I will praise you IF you provide for me,” or do you say, “I will praise you EVEN IF things don’t go my way”? Do you want your plan, or do you trust HIS plan?
What is your struggle, your “if-then” condition? If God does this, then I will do that. Will you stop today, take a breath, and say,
“Yahweh Yireh, I trust you enough, and I believe that you know all things, and you have a plan for me. This is my desire, and even if it doesn’t go my way, you are still good, and you still have me in the palm of your hand.”
I am praying for you all today, and I am hoping that you are loving being nestled up to God in this study and learning to lean into him in ways you never have before.
Have a great day with Jesus!
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