Everyone who hears what I say but doesn’t obey it will be like a foolish person who built a house on sand. Rain poured, and floods came. Winds blew and struck that house. It collapsed, and the result was a total disaster.
Matthew 7:26–27
S ometimes you are waiting for a sign from God because you really want to do something but you aren’t sure if it’s his will or not. You wait and you wait, but you get nothing. People might be telling you you’re crazy and telling you to just drop it, but still you wait because you need a sign. When that’s the case, you need some help. And you get help by finding out what others who know God well think and by digging into God’s Word. The hitch might be not that your plan is bad but that you’ve failed to do something that you were supposed to do. Sometimes you are paralyzed by a choice because there’s another more basic, more mundane command that you are ignoring.
For example, maybe you want to do something really bad and your parents are trying to tell you that you shouldn’t do it. What do you do? Go to God’s Word and you’ll find the answer. This might sound like the last thing in the world you wanna hear, but the answer comes down to his basic command to honor your mother and father. If your parents are saying one thing and you are disobeying them in order to “find God’s will,” then you’re never going to hear from God because you are being disobedient. You always have to obey God first before looking for an answer to your dilemma. Only after you obey his very basic commands, the very words written in Scripture, can you expect to hear from him when it comes to your dreams.