Lead with I don't know
Lord, I don’t know. I find it ironic that you made me curious and that my natural disposition is to seek information and receive it, yet it’s not for us to know everything about everything. Like Job, I realize how vast your wisdom is and that your ways and thoughts are far above my imagination, even. They are excellent and marvelous.
I’m glad you’re teaching me that leaning on you and focusing on you are the best things I could ever do for myself. You are, in fact, the one who made me. You designed me, so you’re the one who’s most familiar with me. You know what I’m gifted at and what I have to learn how to do. You know my strengths and my weaknesses. You know my best traits and attributes. You know what parts of me help serve and fulfill the purposes, callings, and tasks you have for my life. You know what my purposes and callings are. You know me better than I even know myself. You know me because you made me. Maybe I’m not, yet, all that I'm designed to be, and I believe that’s why you have me here in the first place. You are making me new, renewing and transforming me into a new creation. You are rewiring what has gone haywire. You are repotting me in fresh soil. You are breaking me out of my cocoon. And when I might think it’s impossible for me, I am reminded that through Christ, all things are possible. Your perfect Word reminds me of that — you are making all things new.
Help me to see today and do what I can today, be who I can today, and give what I can today. Help me to live today because I can trust you with tomorrow. Tomorrow has yet to come, but when I look back on all of my past tomorrows, one thing is certain: You have always been there. So I will have faith that you will be there, and you will be with me. You will work things together for my good, and you will have a blessing for me tomorrow. And if tomorrow comes, I will do the same as I am today.
God, you know all and see all. I might only be able to see so far ahead, but I will use this sight to keep my eyes on you. I don’t know what’s happening and I don’t have to. I don’t know what’s going to happen, and I don’t need to. I have faith that, like the Good Father you are, you will not forsake me, you will never leave me, and if you promise to make all things new, you will make all things new. If you promise a harvest and a bearing of good fruits, then you will provide abundantly from every seed that is planted. If you promise me a future, then I will have that future.
Because there are things I don’t know, protect my mind from the wickedness of my enemies and the voices of misinformation. Do not let my mind rest idly, instead let it rest only in you. Keep me focused on what is good and worthy of praise. Keep my mind filled with good fruit — keep my focus on your good fruit. Continue to be a hedge of protection about me, especially while I wait. Make me patient in you, and help me to turn away my focus from unproductive thought and worry. Like Paul, help me to wait in apokaradokia of the advancement that awaits. Give me faith to wait in eager expectation of what is to come, remembering that all things work together for the good of those who love you and are called according to your purpose for them. In Jesus' name, amen.
