Guided Walk: you draw a number, find your partner, and grab a blindfold. One person is blindfolded while their partner guides them around campus for 15 minutes. The would hold onto your arm and give you signals to let you know what was going on. Oh, did I say no talking--- at all.
There are many things I did NOT like about this exercise:
- I would be blindfold.
- my partner was a guy whom I did not know.
- There are stairs involved.
- My class is during one of the busiest times on campus, lunch time.
As I was blindfold, being lead through a crowded cafeteria, and thinking of how dumb and embarrased I felt, God started speaking.
It's like he said "really amanda?" It was a total pride thing, and as soon as he started speaking, I knew I was being rediculous.
As I was being guided through the cafe this is what I learned:
Walk by faith, not by sight. In the same way that I had to trust my partner, is the same way I needed to trust the Lord. He can see the bigger picture, I can not. My partner knew how to best guide me around potential obsticles to a goal he could see. I had to trust that he would guide me correctly, this is the same as the faith I have to place in God. Faith is believing that God is who he says he is, and he will do what he says he will do. We need to trust that God will guide us sucessfully through life.
Half way through the guided walk I got confident and started taking larger strides. In the same way, as we trust God and learn to pay attention to his guidance, we are able to successfully move forward without worry/anxiety. As I listened to the guide, it was easier to trust them. In the same way, the more we learn to trust God, the easier it is to follow where he leads as we trust in HIm.
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