Something someone taught me once, that really helped me, was when they talked about how when you walk, there’s a lot that goes on in your body, but you don’t think a lot about it, you just walk. You don’t think “Heel, toe, heel, toe”, you just walk. And they said it’s the same way with walking spiritually. You don’t think “Oh, there’s a word of knowledge. Now what’s the word of wisdom?”, and strain real hard. You just walk.
That helped me a lot, because God’s Word does talk about how if anyone lacks wisdom, let them ask of God, who gives to all men liberally (James 1:5), but we don’t want to strain to try to figure everything out. It can be easy to start stressing ourselves out, trying to make sure we’re doing the right thing, and then get ourselves confused.
Jeremiah 10:23
O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
We’re not designed to figure it all out. There was a record in the Old Testament where God had Samuel go to the household of Jesse to anoint one of his sons to be the next king (I Samuel 16). When Samuel first got there, he didn’t know which of Jesse’s sons was going to be king. Samuel didn’t try to figure everything out before he went to the house of Jesse. Sometimes you have to get to Point B before you can know what Point C will be.