{"id":3319,"date":"2019-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2024-08-15T13:26:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:26:13","slug":"the-delicate-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/2019\/10\/29\/the-delicate-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DELICATE BALANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>\u201c\u2019Do what seems best to you,\u2019 her husband Elkanah told her. \u2018Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the Lord make good his word.\u2019\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What seems best for you may not always be what\u2019s God\u2019s will, and we must be careful in walking this path. We must not make decisions only according to what seems best for us. If you are in a position of authority, you need not quickly oblige people to have their way according to what they think is best for them. The truth is, we don\u2019t usually know what is best for us, although we think we do. We are frail and broken vessels, and our thoughts are not usually in line with God\u2019s thoughts, except if we are fully submitted to the Holy Spirit, and we are mature is hearing and obeying Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elkanah knew his wife was a godly and God-fearing woman. He had seen her grow in grace and godliness. He trusted her judgment, that\u2019s why he could say, \u201cDo what seems best to you\u2026only may the Lord make good His word\u2026\u201d That\u2019s the language of trust. When we have proven our maturity with God, people will more easily trust our judgments. Where we repeatedly make bad decisions, people will not accept our ideas. What seems best to us should align with what is God\u2019s good will for us. That\u2019s the delicate balance we always need to make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cLord, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s good for me. I want Your perfect will all the time. I don\u2019t trust myself. I lean on You and plead for Your guidance. And don\u2019t let my leaders grant me the desires of my heart if they are not Your desires for my life. In Jesus\u2019 name, I pray. Amen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2019Do what seems best to you,\u2019 her husband Elkanah told her. \u2018Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the Lord make good his word.\u2019\u2026\u201d What seems best for you may not always be what\u2019s God\u2019s will, and we must be careful in walking this path. We must not make decisions only according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-1st-samuel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1-Samuel-Cover.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3321,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions\/3321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}