Trust.

At Sunday’s sermon, Pastor MacDiarmid said something that really resonated with me.


He was about to sing a song written by a Kendall Payne ("Pray") who heard a man’s account of meeting Mother Theresa. This man had decided that he wanted to dedicate his life to serving others, like she had. He just didn’t’ know what he was supposed to do. So he was able to meet Mother Theresa, and he said to her, “Mother Theresa, will you pray for me?”. She said, “Of course, what do you want me to pray for?” and he told her the he needs to know what to do with his desire to help others. He asked her, “Can you please pray that God bring me clarity?” . She said, “No, I can’t pray for that” . He was upset and shocked, that after he finally got to meet this remarkable woman, she was turning down the one thing he wanted from her.

When he asked her why, she said, “In all my days of doing this, I’ve never once had a day of clarity. All I’ve had is trust.”

I thought this was just so amazing!! I’ve definitely thought about this in different contexts before, but it really hit me this time. I realize that often, He does in fact provide us an answer, but we still want “clarity” and that is because we are not really trusting what He is showing us or telling us to do…maybe because it’s not what we want, or we think it’s too hard…and we want a different answer. Sometimes deep down inside, we know exactly what He is telling us to do, but our own feelings about it lead us to ignore Him. Asking for clarity is often just our way of asking for what we really want. But what we should seek to do is TRUST in Him…all the time.  If we wait for clarity all the time, can you imagine how much time we'd spend being stagnant??