IT’S UP TO GOD

Nate and Sherilyn enjoyed their stop at an omakase restaurant while on holiday. Omakase is a Japanese word for “I will leave it up to you.” It means customers let the chef choose their meal. Even though it was their first time to try this type of food and it sounded risky, they loved everything the chef chose and made for them.

That idea could carry over to our attitude towards God in our prayer requests: “I will leave it up to You.” The disciples saw that Jesus “often withdrew to lonely places” to pray (LUKE 5:16), so they asked Him one day to teach them how to pray. He told them to ask for their daily needs, forgiveness and the way out of temptation. Part of His teaching also showed an attitude of surrender: “Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (MATTHEW 6:10).

We can give all our needs to God because He wants to hear what’s on our minds—and He loves to give. But being human and limited, we don’t always know what’s best, so it only makes sense to ask for God’s provision as we submit to whatever His will and plan might be. We can leave the answer to Him, confident that He’s trustworthy and will lead us the right way, even if it isn’t what we would have chosen for ourselves.