Those are the three words I wrote when I turned my lamp on last night when my brain wouldn’t quite shut down enough to go to sleep at 2am. Is anyone seeing a trend here..I drink caffeine, can’t go to sleep and God gives me a word. Caffeine is from God!! I jest. Sort Of.
So “Ask the Lord”. What does that have to do with anything? You may correctly guess something in the Old Testament since that’s what I’ve been reading every night. Last night we just about finished 1 Samuel and reading about Saul and how he’s chasing poor David everywhere. But what I’ve noticed is every time you turn around, the men of God, including David, are saying “I asked the Lord such and such”. At every turn when they didn’t know what to do, they asked the Lord. And most of the time, God answered and it says something like so David did what the Lord said (up until now anyway).
The part that has me mesmerized though is how much they ask the Lord about what to do or what’s going to happen. And not only how many times they ask, but how many times they obey and then look back and see it turns out exactly as the Lord said it would. Why does that have me mesmerized? The times I have directly asked the Lord what to do, listened for an answer and followed through are few and far between. Of course I keep his commands close and try to obey but in those moments where we don’t know what to do, where it’s not written in the Bible what to do, do we really ask the Lord what to do? Yes, we may in passing ask for an answer in a passing prayer but do we wait on the Holy Spirit in quiet to give us that clarity as the Israelites had so we know when it unfolds that it was the Lord that guided us through it?
God doesn’t only get glory through miracles and wonders or His creations. He also gets glory when we simply “ask the Lord”.