8/11/2025

Molly Yeo danced professionally with the Nashville Ballet.  She then earned a nursing degree at the University of Virginia, where she is now a PhD student pursuing cancer research.  She writes:

“At times God appears silent as we struggle to understand why he does what he does.  As Christians we are called to keep journeying toward a place we’ve never seen or been to, but that we were created for.

Maybe when facing a decision or seeking guidance from God, like me, you have wished that God would simply spell out the answer or speak aloud through a megaphone.  But in my experience, this is not the way it happens.  Because it wouldn’t require our faith or trust—two things God is always after.

Author and former missionary Elisabeth Elliot gives these three questions to ask yourself when attempting to decipher the wisdom of God in your life:

Have I made up my mind to do whatever he says, no matter the cost?

Am I faithfully reading his word and praying?

Am I obedient in what I know today of his will?

These questions remind us that obedience must precede understanding.  Each day he gives us exactly what we need to take another step to stay the course — never more, never less.

In one of her letters, former missionary to India, Amy Carmichael, wrote:

But this I know:  you will regret nothing when you look back, except lack of faith or fortitude.  You will never regret having thrown all to the winds in order to follow your Master and Lord.  Nothing will seem too much to have done or suffered, when, in the end, we see him and the marks of his wounds; nothing will ever seem enough.  Even the weariness of deferred hope will be forgotten, in the joy that is not of earth.

As you run your own race set before you in this life, look to Jesus.  Like him, our trust in our Heavenly Father shows itself through joyful obedience.  We run the race by trusting God and then getting going, taking one step in faith after another.”

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.  So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.  2 Corinthians 4:17-18

-Michael