God will lead us, if we let Him. He shows us the next step, but only when needed, and often only when we have done everything else He has asked us to do up to that point. If you ever wonder why God hasn’t made something clear to you yet, consider whether there is something He’s already told you to do which you have put off doing. Do that first, and you may be surprised at what else suddenly becomes clear to you, and what possibilities abound.
I have played piano for many different groups outside of the church – student solo competitions, weddings, funerals, community children’s choirs. For a while, I played keyboard with a Christian jazz group, and we performed for nursing homes, senior adult banquets, and even a men’s rehab center. Whenever I played away from home, or my home church, I had to deal with odd pianos. Some were electric keyboards; some were acoustic pianos. Some were uprights; some were grands. Some were in tune; some not so much. Some didn’t even have all the notes working, and many had squeaky pedals. That’s always a trick to adapt to – adding in the additional percussion or atonal squeaks to whatever I was playing.
But God enables us to make use of what we find, when we trust Him and seek to follow Him wherever he leads us. As 2 Corinthians 9:8 says:
And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
Abram trusted God even before the miracle of his son Isaac’s birth, and even without the Bible we depend on so heavily. God told Abram to leave all his family and familiar territory behind, and Abram did so. As a military dependent growing up, I often returned to the verses below when we were told to move yet again. Abram moved, without knowing what was to come. But he trusted that God would take care of him. We can be flexible in our earthly lives when we know and trust that God will always take care of us.
The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.”…
So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
Genesis 12:1,4