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Isaiah 50:7 "For the Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been confounded; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame".

 

I often feel confounded and confused! Unfortunately, I think this is a sign that I am not accepting the Lord's help, I am trying in some way to work things out in accordance with my will or what I think is right. God wants to help me, but I am getting in His way. He may be leading me in a way I do not understand, the outcome of which I cannot see or predict, so I question, I resist, and I am confounded. My face is not set like flint. I worry that I will be put to shame.

 

Even knowing all of the above, I still am in this position a lot. I think everything is a process, God is leading me to trust in Him as fully as Isaiah did. I wish I could get there sooner, but I have a strong will and sense of self-reliance that keep mucking up the works. I have to keep practicing surrender!