Just got off a phone call with a friend and mentor talking about our trust and faith in God. We often ask God to do things in our lives, make ways out of no ways, build bridges over troubled waters, enlarge our territory, etc., but don't trust Him when He does. As His children, we don't have the right to ask for our heart's desires AND tell him exactly how to do it. If this was the case, God would cease to be God but some mere genie in a celestial bottle.
Over the past month, I've wrestled with this myself; when God shows you a plan that you didn't intend on, you question whether or not it's God. Especially when its a plan that you feel that you are not prepared for. I heard a preacher friend say, "God doesn't call the qualified, but He qualifies the called." That's encouraging news to me, because when we get to those moments of monumental tasks, our job is to immediately give it over to God to navigate us through whatever it is. Proverbs 3:5-6 speaks to clearly in that regard, "Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don't try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God's voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; He's the one who will keep you on track." (Message Bible).
I'm ever amazed at how God views his children. I would never have imagine that I would be preaching today, let alone leading God's people. If I was able to follow my plan, I would be doing something totally different than Preaching/Pastoral Ministry. But I thank God for calling me in spite of me. I have found my purpose, and what a joy to know that He saw it in me all along.
I'm learning more and more that God has the best plan. I trust that God has the best plan. I have faith that God has the best plan. Do you?
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This is so good!
I was just talking to a mentor about this as well. When things don't go the way we think they will or the way we think they should, we often become fearful that God didn't actually give us the plan.
That fear causes us to shrink. It tells us what we are not and what we can't become. Instead we have to have to fix our thoughts to what God wants us to be, where he wants us to go and have faith that "God has the best plan." Our faith is not the absence of fear. So in spite of our fear, we must do it afraid. Action is fear's worst enemy. No matter how we feel, we put one foot in front of the other and keep moving forward because He absolutely "will keep [us] on track."
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