LED BY WHAT WE'RE FED

Often we make it tough for ourselves in trying to determine what God's will for our life is when it comes to a number of issues and questions for ourselves that we have. The type of questions we often ask ourselves are usually; 'What Church group shall we go to? What friends should we have? With whom should we meet? Where shall we go? Who shall we learn from? What stage of life should we enter next? What should we be doing? What should we be gaining? Where should we be going? Who should we be? We may even begin to feel as though God is excluding us, ignoring us, and not allowing us to enter and be led by His will as others are entering it and being led by it (how the woman below could've felt if she didn't use the faith given her). And in doubting in this way, and asking these things, we try and sort things out and the will of God out from the wrong way around. We make what is so very simple, into something extremely complex. And we fail to identify with what the Lord always wants to test our hearts with at whatever stage of life we are at. The Lord always wants to test our hearts with the question; 'What do you really want?' If the answer is Jesus, what we shall do, where we shall go, who we shall let into our lives and what we shall be busy with is sorted out through one very simple desire and it's subsequent action- we shall seek for the King's food, where the King obviously is: 

Matt 25v25 The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said.

26 He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

27 “Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”

28 Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.

If, like the woman, we are willing to become as little children, and to simply seek in our lives for the master's bread, no matter if it is even the crumbs that we are getting, then we shall be sure to find Jesus, no matter where we go, no matter who we are led to and no matter what circles of people or places we find ourselves in. If, like the woman, we are willing to humble ourselves, and to seek the Lord's bread wherever it may be found, as best we can according to the opportunities given to us, then the Lord will provide for us. Yes, it may be a day of small things, yes, where we find ourselves, or where we find we are employed, or who we may be associated with may take us by surprise, or even have us wonder at times why some appear to have the loaf of life compared to our crumbs, and yet if we submit ourselves to the opportunities and open doors the Lord has given us nonetheless, we can be sure that the Lord will work out His intended purpose for and through us. The test is always whether we are willing to accept the Lord's will, and whether we truly desire Him and His food- or whether really we are after our own will, and the food of our own making. 

The woman humbled herself, and sort even for the crumbs of truth in her life. She followed Jesus, even though there was no outward beauty that we should desire Him. She followed Him because she knew that where He went, there the will and provision of God was. If we are simply willing to go where God had provided for us, and provided the truth for us, we will be sure to find Jesus, no matter how humble looking His glory and goodness appears to ours or others' natural eye. If we are happy with the crumbs, then we'll find the crumbs, and they will satisfy, His grace will be sufficient for us. If we are not satisfied with the crumbs, and with Jesus in our lives (and the humble appearances He has designed for us), then we shall never be satisfied, but we will forever be trying to figure everything out in our lives and understand everything, rejecting Jesus' desire for us to just trust Him. The healing the woman needed was simply found by finding Jesus in her life, not by figuring everything out. Jesus called the woman's faith great because she knew that Jesus had what she needed. God will not give us everything we want, but He'll provide what we need if we're willing to submit to His very simple and humble looking will for our lives.