TRUSTING GOD'S PLAN
by Stephanie Durand (c)2011
Does God really have a master plan and purpose for our life? The bible clearly tells us that He does.
Indeed, we must trust God's plan and purpose for our life.
We are better off being blind to our own fate, because if we knew, we might live a life of fear, anxiety, and confusion.
Everyone must go through pain and sorrow as they travel their own "roads" in life.
But, when you come to a road and realize this is the place you have been destined to arrive at, you must not look back with regret.
Instead you should learn from your travels, your journeys, your mistakes, pray, and look forward.
Yes, humans use free will to make decisions. We sometimes inflict more pain upon ourselves when we will not accept how our life has turned out.
Self-pity and free will can often cause further pain and suffering.
God determines our purpose before we are born.
Our own free will takes us away from the plan and purpose that God choose from our life.
BUT...the good news is....at any point on any person's "time-line" they can get BACK on the path of God's will.
"Even now," declares the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning, Rend your heart and not your garments, return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love" Joel 2:12-13.
This takes obedience, prayer, mentors, patience, grace, humbling of spirit, optimism, and choosing "hope" for the future, not "despair," not "shame", not "blame", not "anger", not "revenge" ...none of these.
If you are building a house and you have a master plan, things can and should fall into place. If you decide at some point, maybe you would like something different...and you steer "off" the master plan...sometimes "everything" can be thrown off!
Confusion, bewilderment, and more work is suddenly on your plate.
Had you not veered of the original plan, things may not have become so complicated.
The solution, backtrack....go back to the original, modify and correct the changes you made that just simply are not working....
Stop....think....and realize that sometimes "our plans" disrupt and complicate "original plans!"
If this happens, the main thing is STOP! Don't go further! Just STOP! Regroup! Get knowledge! Listen!
In life....Fix the mistakes one by one, mark them out!
Continue on in patience and with a goal to get back on track with ....a SMILE, and yearn for a HOPEFUL, GRATEFUL, heart...in life....with God LIGHTING your path, one inch at a time!
Don't walk too far ahead of Him, or you will be following your "own" path, not His.
Be prayerful, be grateful, be loving, be compassionate, be truthful, be humble, be giving, be a "light" for others in darkness, and stay close to His word, His truth!
Know WHO you are in CHRIST, as Jesus said, "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has annointed me to preach good news to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." Luke 4:18-19
Know WHO you are as a son or daughter of God, "Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God" John 1: 12,
and be all that He asks "you" to be....for others....and for yourself!
May God bless you as you JOURNEY on with Him! Amen!
