I’ve been kind of stuck in a rut lately… that explains my long gap between blog post. I think it fair to say that my spiritual life is sometimes like the weather, disappointments cloud my judgments making it difficult to clearly see God working in my life. This week as been especially trying, my car needed over $400 in repairs, the day after I fixed my car someone ran into the back of it while I was sitting at a stoplight, and I had a extremely hectic workweek to name but a fraction of this week’s disappointments.
We all have plans, hopes, dreams, and aspirations for our lives and if I told you forget about them all and walk away you probably would look at me like I was crazy. But I’m realizing that as crazy as it sounds it something I need to do…. I’m letting them all go! Ok, ok well at least I’m in that process. Piece by piece I’m exchanging all the plans I have for my life for His. Even with the greatest disappointments God’s plans for my life are so much greater that my own. I want to be willing to let go of my deepest desires for His. I’m realizing that surrendering to God is a continuous process that involves constantly checking myself. Because the truth is I only become discouraged when I rely on my own power and ability and my plans fail, when things don’t go the way I think they should go. I stop feeling God’s presence and seeing His works, leaving me unable to experience the full benefit of his blessings, when I stop relying and trusting solely in Him. Yes I’m giving up. I quit. I’m shamelessly surrendering to Him and I feel so liberated. Exchanging I mine for His.
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 NIV
“The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places, and make your bones strong, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail.” Isaiah 58:11 NIV
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
“The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives.” Psalms 37:23 NLT
“God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?” Number 23:19 ESV
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