Trust God’s Process

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One of life’s special privileges is the opportunity to learn from another person’s teaching. This is so because while that teacher may have learned through many hours of experience, including trial and error, the recipient gains all that knowledge and wisdom without having to go through the same process.

However, one essential element for a successful teacher/student partnership is trust, particularly of the student in the teacher. I recall taking Biology in high school, and our class was significantly behind due to several extenuating circumstances. However, a teacher came to our rescue.

We followed every instruction and request for additional classes, knowing this was our only hope for success. There were not going to be any shortcuts along this path. Slowly but surely, our confidence grew, and thankfully, we all did well in the end.

This experience underscores a few important truths about the journey of life:

  1. Lasting success requires patience, diligence, and consistency. Shortcutting foundational principles and processes yields undesirable outcomes that eventually surface in unexpected and unfortunate ways. Think of a musician who avoids learning scales, or an investor seeking financial stability through risky investments.
  1. Patience, diligence, and consistency require trust in the one who is leading. We are admonished in God’s Word to wait on the Lord. But this waiting is not necessarily to ‘do nothing.’ It is a caution against running ahead of God’s leading and instruction. The key is to follow God with a deep-seated trust in His guidance, trusting the process, knowing that He will work things out for our good.

Romans 8:28 says, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.’

Following God requires trust when you don’t understand, patience when you don’t see progress, and diligence when things are hard. Just like good teachers want to see their students excel, God wants the same for you. So, stay the course. You can trust God’s process!