Jesus doesn't give us a sign.

Luke 20:8

And Jesus responded, “Then I won’t tell you by what authority I do these things.”

When I’m struggling I sure want Jesus to show me something.  Give me a sign that I’m doing the right thing, going the right way.

The Pharisees wanted signs and answers from Christ but didn’t acknowledge who He was.

My job is to accept and know who Christ is in my life.  No that the direction He has is the one for me, not the one I’m trying to take or push. Once I accept and live that… I don’t need Jesus to show me anything else.

Are you surrounded by the right people?

1 Kings 1:7-8

'Adonijah took Joab son of Zeruiah and Abiathar the priest into his confidence, and they agreed to help him become king. But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s personal bodyguard refused to support Adonijah.'

Sometimes who we leave out of our lives is more important than who we let in.  Adonijah had made sure to invite prestigious people of rank, wealth and the priesthood into the kingship he decided to take. By all appearances he was surrounded by the right people.

But surrounding himself with the right people and assuming a role that hadn’t been granted him was just a ruse.  The important people he had surrounded himself with were not the “right” people, the people that really matter. And the kingship wasn’t something that could be assumed, it was something granted which Adonijah didn’t have.

I believe that often times I feel like I’ve surrounded myself with the right people and am doing the right things.  And by all appearances I am.  But when these are relationships and plans I’ve made  are done solely on my own they may be of little value to God, lessen the chance to bring Him glory and have a lower ability to succeed.  

As I look at the the people that God has placed in my life and I make my plans and create my ideas; are there certain people that I am purposefully keeping out of what I’m doing?  Do I ever feel that a strong Christian and Godly man may be a hinderance to what I want to do?  Today God is telling me to be more open to that and to realize those my very well be the people He has placed in my path for a reason.

Jeff