For the next couple of hours, I went about my morning this way, acting immediately on my first thought. What I learned was that when you trust and are obedient with each and every decision that you make, the stress of decision making is erased from your life. I once heard that the greatest stress comes from constant decisions … what to wear, what to say, where to go … how to treat someone, be nice, don’t overreact, and all of these constant decisions make things harder than they have to be. I’ve always heard the term “let go and let God,” but until this day I didn’t even begin to understand what that meant.
I completed the entire day in this focused manner, and realized at the end of the day, that not only had I spent an entire day with no stress, but also with no guilt, or blame, or negative feelings. I “randomly” (yeah right) opened the Bible at all the times that I was “told,” and a common theme emerged: “Don’t worry about what to say, I’ll put the words in your mouth.” I had no idea about the application of this one, until I had a dream Thursday night of writing on a paper, and words flowing from my pen that I didn’t know about. So, I’m writing this today, hopefully to help someone understand the absolute beauty and peace that comes from listening to God. It’s the exact same feeling as a child when an authority figure in your life patted you on the head and said “Good Job”… God pats us on the head with answered prayers, sickness healed and daily miracles … we just need to be “still” enough to notice.
