Look...Remember...Do

It was a couple of months ago when a friend of mine shared a passage of Scripture which had jumped off the page and spoken to her. She was excited to share the truth of it with us, her friends. Don't you just love that? Having friends with whom you can share what God is teaching you? Friends with whom you can share your struggles and your failures? Friends with whom you can share how God is changing you and molding you? Friends whom you can ask to pray, knowing that they will?

So it was with eagerness that my friend shared these words from Numbers 15. I'll admit that, while I know I've read them before, they jumped off the page and ministered to me a whole new way that day. It was like I was reading them with fresh eyes.

The Lord said to Moses,

"Speak to the people of Israel, and ask them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after. So you shall remember to do all my commandments, and be holy to your God. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God;

I am the Lord your God."

Numbers 15:37-41

We each shared an area in which we find it difficult to obey. While there are many, I believe the key area in which God has been working in my life is in regard to trusting Him. So frequently, I try to run ahead of God and "help" things along. I fear and doubt and question His plan. Oh, I know He's calling me to trust...to obey...to rest in Him. But so many times, I'm trusting me and my own abilities. I'm leaning on my own strength and my own understanding. I follow after my own heart and what I can see. Specifically in recent months, as we've been praying and making decisions regarding our oldest son's high school career, I've been fearful and doubtful. But God is saying, "No, Nikki. Just trust Me. I am working for your good and My glory. I love your family even more than you do. You can entrust them to My loving care. You can trust Me."

My friend suggested that we each get a blue bracelet to wear upon our wrists; a reminder of God's admonishment in this passage of Scripture. Being a visual person, I immediately jumped on board with the idea. As I wear my bracelet throughout the day, I feel it. I see it. And each time I do, it's a little nudge, a little reminder from a loving heavenly Father. It's a timely visual to trust in the unfailing faithfulness of a God who loves me so very much.