It’s time to call a fast on reasoning. Joyce explains why we need to get comfortable not knowing everything.
first question comes from aisha in north
carolina
she says i have physical problems
brought on by stress
i pray but at times i feel like i can’t
control my thoughts
how do i free myself from overthinking
everything in my life well why questions
you know number one you can’t free
yourself from anything
ah so that’s the first
problem is trying to yeah do it yourself
so um i suggest
talking to god about it which is prayer
you know this is obviously a problem in
my life and i don’t seem to be able to
stop it
so i need your help you know show me
what i can do and you know the
i mean i was so addicted to reasoning i
mean i had
to think i had the answer to everything
and to be honest it can just about drive
you
mad you just it just does nothing but
make the problems worse
and so i finally gave it up you know
like i
called a fast on reasoning and instead
of
when i would be tempted to get into oh
god i don’t understand why i would just
say
never mind lord i trust you
it was like a decision that i had to
make that
i mean the lord put this in my heart one
time don’t you know if you could
understand everything then
then you’d be god instead of me you know
there are mysteries in christ that we
don’t understand there are things that
happen in our lives that we don’t
understand
you know one of the things that i say
frequently is we live life forward but
we understand it backward
and so now i can look back and
understand a lot of things
that were really problems for me when i
was going
through them so trusting god is the key
and i’ve written a great book on
trusting god called
unshakable trust and then we have a
devotional on trusting god called
trusting god day by day
so study in that area
study what the bible says i mean there’s
nothing wrong with asking god why but
a lot of times he’s not going to tell
you and
the real danger is with all the
reasoning is sometimes you think you’ve
got something figured out
you think you’ve oh yeah now i get it
and then it turns out to be something
totally different
than what you thought it was and to be
very honest
very honest you’re never going to have
peace
unless you can give up having to know
we need to get comfortable not knowing