Lakeland Seventh-day Adventist Church

When I was in Boy Scouts, the Scoutmaster did an exercise in trust. Each boy was blindfolded, led into a tent, had their hands put into two containers of liquid and asked what they felt. While they were putting the blindfold on me, my juvenile mind knew I was in no mortal danger, but my trust-o-meter was diving into the dirt. Then, tents being what they are, I heard the boy who went in before me scream, “Ewww! It's wor--!”

No more surely would I have known the sound of a hand clamped over the words had I tasted the sweaty palm myself. My mind started to wriggle in the topsoil of doubt and fear, and that was all I wanted of this adventure. I, ah, wormed my way out the blindfold, the older boys coaxing me to go through with it. But I set my mind and that was it.

Have you ever felt blindfolded as God was leading you through stuff? It's not that we think He would hurt us, we just want to know what He's doing. We fear the worms. In our childish stubbornness we set our minds, because, well, God wouldn't lead me in that direction.

In the study of the Lord's prayer it is one thing to pray, “Your kingdom come;” it is a different animal altogether to pray, “Your will be done.” This difference is often perceived as the difference between “Get me out of here!” and “I'm good with You leaving me here to plunge my hands into. . . into whatever.”

These situations where we are asked to pray, “Your will be done” will not necessarily become any clearer, or less scary as we learn to trust God. If everything were clear or not scary we wouldn't need to trust. There may even be real worms, not just spaghetti in water. But for all we don't know about these situations, we do know that God's will leads exactly where we want to go if we trust Him.

We are simply asked to trust. “Your will be done,” not mine. How's your trust-o-meter?