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By Rob Des Cotes
 The wise heart will know the proper time and procedure. For
there is a proper time and procedure for every matter.
Eccl. 8:5-6
Throughout his ministry, Oswald Chambers, the author of My Utmost for His Highest followed a daily motto to simply trust God and do the next thing. He was comfortable with the fact that he could not see the whole picture, and in the knowledge that the journey can just as easily be made by a thousand small steps as by a few giant leaps.
This is the type of wisdom that faith inspires. Faith rests in the knowledge that the Lord has already prepared a path for us to walk each day. If we just wait long enough, it will reveal itself. We might not know where this path is leading us. We might not even like where it's going. But there is definitely a path for each one of us to walk, and Jesus has identified it as none other than Himself the Way.
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Seeking and waiting for Jesus each day is how we come to know theproper time and procedure for each matter.The book of Proverbs agrees with the wisdom of patience when it comes to finding our path. In Prov. 4:26 we are encouraged to make level paths for your feet and take only ways that are firm. There are many times when we must wait for the dust of confusion to settle before the way can be revealed to us. To start walking any sooner, on what is still rough and uncertain terrain, is seen as foolishness.
Wisdom knows that it is best to wait until the proper time and procedure is revealed.To wait on God, of course, is a test of our faith. It means staring into the void and feeling secure enough to do nothing about it. We are not very comfortable with uncertainties. We often panic when we don't know what to do. And in our anxiety we feel compelled to take any action rather than no action at all. But the contemplative life encourages us to give proper time for things to unfold before we act. New information will show up tomorrow that you could not possibly have known today. Your own disposition and state of soul will be different an hour from now than it is at present. Make level paths for you feet.. There are patterns of direction to all things in life and they will emerge in their own time. You will know which way is firm, and the proper time and procedure for every matter. And, until you do, you are counseled to wait.
May 8/2008
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