Genesis 18:17 [NLT]
“Should I hide my plan from Abraham?” the Lord asked.

Dear God, yes, please hide from me what you are doing. That’s my first response when I read this verse and I think back on my life so far. Very rarely would it have benefited me to know what you were doing in advance. I heard your call in a given moment and sometimes I obeyed it regardless of what the future held. And sometimes it was a hard future. But I am glad that I didn’t know how hard it would be going into it.

Even now, as I think of some of the challenges ahead of me and two that involve work that are predominantly on my heart, it really is better that I don’t know everything that will happen between now and when you resolve these situations. After the journey my wife and I took over 15 years ago, I came up with a saying that you keep me on a need-to-know basis and I very rarely need to know. I still think that is true.

Father, I have a couple of difficult situations with which I’m currently dealing, and I have friends who are also dealing with hard things. Please help us all. Help us to, first, cry out to you. I’ve been praying to you about one of my things all morning. Please hear my cry. Help me to do everything according to your plan and your will. Holy Spirit, fill me, pour through me, and bring glory to your name through me, even if it costs me something. Not my will, but your will be done.

In Jesus’ name I pray,

Amen