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Have you ever felt like you’ve been given the order to, “stand down” when you know that your help could’ve made a difference? It’s agonizing, isn’t it? Not only has it happened over and over again to US Special Operators, but it also happens over and over again throughout the Bible. When Christian service is being rendered in the proper motives and with the right heart, it can be withheld just as freely as it can be given. That’s a hard statement to accept – but it ultimately has everything to do with our level of trust in God. Does God really need me, and only me, in order to get his will accomplished? Isn’t it possible that I don’t see this situation from the same perspective as the Lord sees it? Can I trust him to even cause this to work together for my good? It was because of questions like these that Peter fled from Jesus, after swearing that he’d never leave him. What do we do when God does something we never guessed he’d do? Do we patiently trust him or do we melt down and “run for it?”


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