"The Lord will do what is good in His sight."

This is a quote from 2 Samuel 10:12.  In this passage Joab is about to go up against two armies; the Arameans and Ammonites.  He splits his army.  Joab sends his best Israeli soldiers to fight the Arameans and sends his brother, Abishai, with the rest of the troops to fight the Ammonites.  Joab has no clue how this is going to turn out.  He tells his brother...

"If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to come to my rescue; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you.  Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God.  The Lord will do what is good in his sight."

Joab was taking a HUGE risk here.  He was heading into a situation where he did not know the outcome.  Frankily, he didn't seem to care.  All he cared about was that the Lord "do what is good in his sight."  If Joab's army won, the Lord would be glorified.  If Joab's army lost, the Lord would be glorified.

We can take a great lesson from this.  Right now my wife and I are in the process of relocating back to Indianapolis from Oxford, OH.  So far I have one job that probably isn't enough money to support us both without serious cuts in our lifestyle (which isn't at all lavish to begin with) and another possibility in waiting.  Courtney is most likely on the verge of getting a job but still does not have anything nailed down.  We have put a down payment on an apartment and hired a moving company.  

We are moving without knowing exactly what God has planned for us.  We have no clear future planned out in detail.  I was reminded of this story while reading John Piper's Don't Waste Your Life.  This story reminds me that it doesn't matter what happens.  We may find great jobs and make a million dollars, or we might tank and have to sell our cars, move into a smaller apartment, and take multiple part time dead end jobs to make ends meet. 

Either way we need to rely on God and realize the only thing that matters is that "The Lord will do what is good in His sight."  Whether we have great success quickly, take years to find success, or spend the next thirty years scraping by.  The only thing that matters is that God's will be done and that we take what we can learn from our struggles through that and grow in Christ.