There are a couple of drastically different emotions you go through when God reveals what He wants you to do. What He created you for and the direction He wants you to go.

1. Excitement

That long anticipated answer has finally come!  I finally know what I’m supposed to do with my life.  I can finally head in a direction and not feel like I’m wondering around aimlessly.  For me, I was excited that I was going to get a good nights rest again. When trying to figure out what God wanted me to do, a friends prayer said, “God put it on Aaron’s mind so much what you want him to do that he loses sleep at night.” …And He did. For 2 weeks I literally couldn’t sleep more than 1 hour a night because something involving music was heavy on my mind.  So needless to say, once God finally answered that prayer and made it clear to me what I was supposed to be doing I was pumped!

The other emotion you experience is

2. Fear

As soon as you see where God wants to take you, you suddenly have an “Oh crap!” moment because you realize you aren’t able to come anywhere close to attaining it on your own.  When God made it clear to me I was going to be a Worship Pastor, I was grossly unequipped.  I was a mediocre at best musician with no clue where to start to get better.

To be honest, when you realize what God has in store for you’re life, it should scare you. You should realize you can’t do it on you’re own. If you can live the most effective life possible without God’s involvement, then what would you need God for in any other area of your life? What we have to evaluate is how we respond to that fear.

In his book, Soul Detox, Craig Groeschel says, “What we fear the most reflects where we trust God with the least.”  It’s a hard pill to swallow because as superior Christians we will never admit that we lack faith in some area. But if you are constantly worried about your kids safety and you make them where bubble wrap to go to the playground or to a friends birthday party, or you never let them play outside because the sun has bad rays and you don’t want anything bad to happen to them.  What that’s really saying is, you believe you can take better care of your kids than God can.  That’s why you can tend to refuse to release control and trust that God will take care of them.  I promise you, it’s not God’s will for your children to where a bike helmet when going down the slide at the playground.

I don’t think it’s possible to go through life without fear, but I do think it’s possible to hand our fears over to God. In other words, I believe it’s possible to take control of our fears rather than letting our fears control us.  When God reveals to you what He wants you to do, it is going to scare you. You’re suddenly going to see where you fall short and aren’t talented enough to do what He is calling you to do. You’ll see where you aren’t ready because you haven’t taken a certain course, or maybe because you didn’t do so well in that course growing up.  You’ll see where you just don’t have time and doing what God has created you to do is going to require you to reprioritize some things. Or you’ll feel like you can’t give it what is required and just aren’t in a place where you can commit to this.  Satan, our spiritual enemy, is going to flood your minds with all the reasons why you shouldn’t be doing what you were created to do. And why wouldn’t he, if you start doing what God created you for, it’s not gonna work out to great for him and his plans.  Of course he is going to try and deter you from God’s plan! We have a choice to make.

1. We can submit to the fear and let it control us, or

2. We can control the fear and trust God’s plan

This really stood out to me this week in my quiet time.  I was reading through Exodus when God calls moses. His immediate response was giving God a bunch of reasons why he wasn’t the right guy or why he wouldn’t be successful.  Now before we go pointing fingers and calling Moses a less mature Christian than ourselves, don’t we do that quite a bit. How many times has God told you to do something and you give Him a million reasons why He got this one wrong and you shouldn’t do it. Or we try to open God’s eyes to something He hasn’t already thought of. To answer that for you…ALOT! We all have.

But I think we can learn something from God’s response. Check this out. *read the full story here

Exodus 4:1–2 (NIV)

1 Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”2 Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”

I can remember a time or two I turned my house upside down looking for my phone and after not finding it anywhere, now ready to give up and throw something across the room out of frustration, I realized the only thing I had to throw was my phone. In my hand the whole time!

We do the same thing when it comes to doing what God has called us to do. We drive ourselves to begin searching for something and waiting for God to give us something we already have. He has told you to go because He wants you to fulfill what He created you for. I believe with all my heart, once we decide not to let our fears and/or insecurities effect our decisions and we begin to trust that God knows what He’s talking about, we will be blown away by the incredible things God does through us.  God calls us to move in His timing. He wants to use you to radically transform someones life!

Be encouraged this week to surrender everything to God including your fears, insecurities, and doubts. It’s not possible to not have the emotion hit us, but how we respond to it is completely in our control.