Write, Pray, Trust

Several years ago, I worked in a clinical laboratory. My favorite lab tests were the ‘send-out tests’. These were the tests that we were not equipped to do in our lab. They had to be mailed out to a specialty lab. All I had to do was package them up for mailing, wait a week or so, and then record the results on the computer when they came back. Package, wait, and record; it was that simple!

Almost every week, some crisis comes up in my life which I’m not equipped to deal with. Unfortunately, my first instinct is to try to figure out a solution by myself. When that doesn’t work, then I ask God, “What should I do?”

“If you see that the job is too big for you, that it’s something only God can do, and you trust him to do it—you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked—well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God.” (Romans 4:4-5 MSG)

When I am faced with a trial that I’m not equipped to handle, I need to send it to God. All I have to do is package it in prayer, wait in complete trust, and write about the results for others to see. Pray, trust, and write; it’s that simple!