If we are still in the morning and open our lives to the influence of God, we will begin to find that He gently re-orders our priorities and tasks for the day ahead. Chaos ensues when we let the external demands of our lives rule us. But God is not subject to events or to domineering and controlling personalities or events. He has His own agenda and timetable.
When we place our tasks before Him and become silent, we open ourselves to His peace, His agenda, His timetable and let go of the demands that other people and our passions want to impose upon us.
Assurance comes from inner, not outer, direction. God wants to write His thoughts as a permanent record on our hearts; His is a living word written on living hearts. Until that happpens, the Bible remains to us a closed book, inpenetrable, nonsense.
God has written many stories of His action into all of our lives---as we allow these living stories to transform us, we become a living word written in Spirit and Truth. The process requires a letting go of what we "think," and an entering into an unknown, but gradually revealed path, as did Abraham when he left his father's house and culture and embarked on a journey to a "land I will show you."
Can we trust God to act in our own lives----or do we feel we have to be in control? Prayer, openness, letting go---or constantly responding to pressure?
Jesus said that if we had faith the size of a mustard seed, we could move mountains. Faith is the firm knowledge that God will act if He allow Him to do so.
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