This weekend we allowed our eighteen year old daughter, Emerie, to drive three hours away to see a friend. Alone!
Ok, you’re thinking, she’s 18; what’s the problem?
Let me tell you. This is our youngest daughter and she just got her first car. Yes, she had to wait until she was a senior in high school for a car, despite daughter number one getting her car at 16. A lesson in patience for the entire family. But this is a future post!
When she asked her dad and I if she could go, I panicked saying, absolutely not! Why go all that way? Why alone?
But as my husband, Brad, and I discussed it, he asked me, was it only out of fear that I was saying no? Gulp. As Kay Arthur would say, you’re at a crossroads! Do I tell the truth? That YES, it is fear stopping me from uttering the word my daughter wants to hear most.
Brad reminded me that she is 18 and that she is not ours, but God’s. And I need to trust God to protect her and get her where she wanted to go. I do trust God. I just don’t trust other drivers!
Through a few tears, I walked upstairs to Emerie’s bedroom and asked if I could talk to her. I told her that we decided she could go. She was ecstatic. Before she left, she gave me a big hug and told me she loved me.
That was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do as a parent. Almost as hard as holding one of my girls as they cried their eyes out because of one thing or another.
The point is, I tell others all the time, you either trust God or you don’t. Now God was telling me, you either trust me or you don’t! Wow. I hate conviction! But God asks us to trust Him in ALL we do, not just the things that seem easy to trust him in or with.
My good friend, Vera, is teaching a Bible study titled Grace-full: Lessons from our Ancient Sisters. During my daily homework this week we looked at Proverbs 3:5-6 and specifically the phrase, in all your ways acknowledge him. She asked us in what ways is this command hardest for us to obey? It would have been much easier to answer in what ways is it easiest to obey? Trusting God to get my daughter safely from one place to another on a busy interstate. Difficult! But we are commanded to trust in EVERYTHING.
Guess what? God did get her safely there and back. Not even one wrong turn. Praise his name!
How are you doing with trusting God? Where do you have difficulty? If you’re like me, where don’t you have difficulty!
Keep reading the living word of God and get to know him well. You can only trust the God you know! {another sound bite from Vera that has stuck with me!}
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV
In the Message:
Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure it out on your own. Listen to God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track.


I am still on my quest to be All In for God. Are you with me?




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