Anyways, euchre is a card game played with partners. I don't have a detailed description of it, I'm sure google could help you out, but basically you and your partner want to win the most "tricks" to get points. There is always a trump suit, let's say hearts. Yet in the game the most important rule is to follow suit. So if someone leads with diamonds, you have to follow suit. If I lay a heart to win the trick but don't follow suit I am charged with "reneging" and you actually lose the hand.
I think sometimes we renege God. He laid a card down and we decide to pull out our trump card. I know God you want me to do this, but what you don’t know is that I actually have a better offer in my hand, sorry God but I got this one. The problem with not following suit is that we end up screwing up the game and loosing points. I am not saying that God is keeping score, but I am saying that he knows our cards.
I graduate in less than 5 weeks and I keep trying to tell God what cards I have. God I have a jack of hearts (that would then be the highest card) wouldn’t you want me to play that one. But he leads Diamonds and all I have is a 9 (lowest card). God why would you want me to play my weakest card when I can win this right now.
Lately I feel like God is asking for my lowest card. I am graduating with a Psychology degree and most people will tell me that my next step is graduate school for counseling. I have been praying about my future and I feel like that is trump. Going to grad school for counseling makes sense. I have experience with psychology, I know people in psychology, and I have seen many good Christian psychologists who help people. These are warm empathetic people, yet I still felt like I couldn’t play it.
In the last few months I feel like God is pulling a different lead and I am so scared to follow suit.
The new suit that is being laid is law school. Now that might sound great to some people but I have never wanted to go into law. I don’t know how I can win this hand. I have no experience in law, I don’t know a lot of people in law, I don’t even think I am qualified for law school but I need to follow suit. God has placed this on my heart and I have no idea why, I can’t see the end game but I know it is the right next step. If I decided to peruse counseling, when I feel this strongly toward law school I would be reneging on God.
In the Bible, Moses tries to renege. God had called Moses to free his people and this was his response
Exodus 4:10 "Moses said to the Lord, ‘O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.’”
Moses felt like he was being told to lay the 9 of diamonds. God I have other gifts, things I am good at and know, why not use me for those things and use someone else for this freedom stuff. God knew Moses’ hand and that he could win this fight for freedom.
I have to trust God that he knows my hand. He knows that I have the lowest card and am the most unworthy for this new journey, and he still is laying diamonds.
God’s call on your life is not always your biggest and best qualities, it is not always your experience that qualifies you; sometimes he asks for our 9’s to prove HE can still win the hand with our lowest card.
