Don’t Peek

I delight to do Your will, O my God…Your law is written within my heart.        Psalm 40:8

Recently during a rare cooking event, I sliced not only the vegetables, but also my finger.  While debating whether or not stitches were needed, I decided to wrap it up and go find a butterfly bandage.  Interestingly, I found this super duper bandage that promised to heal the cut and the surrounding skin.  The only rule is you can’t peek for three days.

It’s funny how telling me don’t peek is a sure way to make me obsessed with peeking just to see how things are coming along.  So, after a day, I decided it would be to my advantage to peek just to make sure the cut was healing properly.  The only problem was that once you loosen the bandage to peek, you can’t get it back on properly, so you must start the process again.  I could have saved so much time and trouble if I had just followed the directions.

Isn’t that so like us?  We want to give problems to God, trust Him with our life, feel assured that He will never leave us, leave our lives in His hands, and walk away.  However, just like me and my finger, we get impatient, and we want to peek just to see how things are going.  We just can’t follow His directions.

There are times in life where not peeking into God’s will seems just too difficult, too slow, and too unrewarding.  We think our ideas will produce results quicker and that the results will be more to our liking.  However, in the end, we find that His plan is better and that it always will be.

It will always be best to yield to God’s will, do things His way, and believe  that He will always give us His best.  If we will just trust and don’t peek, we will learn to settle for nothing less than God’s will.

After following the directions, my finger healed just fine.  There’s not  a sign of the awful cut.  It would have been so much easier and faster not to peek.

My goal is, no peeking today just thankfulness for whatever God has in store.