“Since he would not be persuaded, we said no more except, ‘The Lord’s will be done.’” (v. 14)

When your friends are called…

When your church decides to be bold…

When your pastor leads…

When your spouse’s heart is pulled…

When the Holy Spirit speaks and asks you to move…

…will you dig in? Pull against? Hold back? Try to stop it?

Or will you submit to the Lord’s will?

Paul’s friends didn’t want him to follow his calling. They tried to talk him out of it. In fact, they begged him. Yet Paul knew that the calling superseded any human wisdom—and any emotional resistance. So his friends relented, and they trusted the will of the Lord.

Will we do the same? Or will we continually be a drag to the called? Our emotions aren’t misplaced, but they aren’t sovereign, either. If the Lord is in it, we ought to be, too.

So if you are near to the ones the Spirit is leading deeper, further, and costlier, trust God’s leadership, just as they have.

— Tyler