Many people live life wanting all the blanks filled in. They want to see the agenda, the plan, and every step to how everything is going to work. Before they get on board, they want to have everything explained. Before they invest time or energy, they want to have a cup of coffee with you.

But, if you have lived long enough, you know that life does not work like that. Life does not give you all the answers ahead of time. Life does not fill in all the blanks for you. Neither does God.

Sometimes, you have to begin not exactly knowing how it is all going to work out. Life has a degree of uncertainty that is always present. To progress, you must become comfortable with uncertainty, and you must instill that in the people you lead. 

Consider the example of Abram in Genesis 12:1-4. Abram obeyed when God told him to leave his country, family, and father’s house to go to a land that God would show him. There is no record that Abram asked God for any details before departing. He simply trusted God enough to begin, and God blessed him, helping him in his journey to the Land of Promise. The journey to the unknown land was—in reality—the journey of faith. 

Many of us want to have everything mapped out. We want God to show us the entire plan. We say, “God, just give me a little snapshot of how this is all going to work out, and I will follow you.” But, as you may well know, God does not work like that. God always leaves a few blanks in the sentence to stretch our faith. If He gave us all the details, I doubt that we would move at all—especially when we see the challenges we might have to endure along the way!