Trust Me!

I am sorry I blog so infrequently. We had History Fair at school a couple weeks ago, so I was coming home pretty exhausted. If you want my best writing, you want me to be well rested.

God has been teaching me a BIG lesson, and He's used my own words to do it.

A common scene from my classroom: I go up in front of the class to teach. I go to the board and write a math problem (or a timeline, or a sentence to diagram, or any number of things depending which class I'm teaching). I get a variety of reactions from the kids.

"We already know this."

"I hate learning about this."

"This is too hard! I'll never get it!"

"What does this have to do with what we are learning?"

I know that I am adding new information. I am trying to find a new way to explain it to make it easier and therefore more fun to learn. I know how it all connects. They need to just give me time to teach, and they need to trust me!

One day, I say (sometimes I yell in frustration) over my shoulder as I am writing, "Just trust me!" I've been their teacher for at least seven-eighths of a school year. Don't they remember that in every lesson before, I've given them something new, made it easy to understand, and connected it back to what we've been learning?

Then...(you see where this is going?)...

God says back, "Just trust Me."

But, God, I already know this, It's too hard to learn, I don't like learning it, and I'm not sure how what You are doing to me in my life will teach me anything!

"Just trust Me." Don't I remember how faithful God has been in the past? Don't I remember how He's given me what I need? Don't I remember how everything's come together in ways better than I could have imagined?

I have to acknowledge daily that God knows what new lessons I need. He knows exactly how to teach me. He can see how everything connects. I just need to give Him time and trust Him.

Sigh. It's so hard!

Trying to trust God and waiting to see where this lesson is going,

Jordon