Have you ever been in a situation/circumstance in your life
where you just couldn’t understand or see what God was doing in that moment? I
know I have. So many times I find myself tired and worn out because I try to
figure out what God is doing or wants me to do.
I try so hard to understand the plans He has for my life, to the point
where I gets so weary in my journey with Him and I try to direct my own life
because I’m unable to fully comprehend everything that He does and I fail to
realize that his thoughts are not my thoughts and His ways are so much HIGHER
than mine. Isaiah 55:8 says: “For My thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways My ways”, declares the Lord. “As the
heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My
thoughts than your thoughts.” And in Proverbs 20:24 says: “The
Lord directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way?”
Sometimes it can be hard for us to trust God when we don’t understand, when we
can’t see clearly, when we don’t have clear directions, but we have to have
faith that God WILL fulfill the plans He has for our life.
Just as a mother wouldn’t give her newborn baby solid food
because she knows what’s best for the baby and she knows that the baby isn’t
ready to handle that type of food and it can hurt it. But as the baby starts to
go through a process of developing and growing teeth and the digestive system
starts to get stronger, she will gradually start to give her baby solid food,
it’s not like she was withholding it to be mean but to protect her child and
make sure that it grows healthy and develops first before trying to give them
something else... Same goes for God, He knows EXACTLY what we need before we
need it, He also knows that some of the things we are asking for, we aren’t
quite ready for them so He’s withholding them from us until the time is right.
That doesn’t necessarily mean He won’t give them to us if it’s according to His
will for our life. You might ask, “then when is the right time?” and I will
tell you I don’t know when God is going to move, and that’s were faith comes
in, you have to have faith that He is going to do whatever it is that He said
He was going to do. I also know that there’s a process that you have to go
through to develop in certain areas in your life before He can trust you with
the things you’re asking for.
A lot of the time we give up way before our process is
over, and God begins to show us His plan for our life. What I’ve learned is
that I have to have faith in those times where I can’t see or understand or
even figure out what He’s doing in my life. There were times in my life were I
lost hope, were I was so close to giving up, I was at the end of my rope and
all I remember is just crying out to God and pouring my heart out to Him, and
that’s when He revealed to me what He wanted me to do in that season of my
life.. Sometimes we just need to be still in His presence and spend more time
with Him than we do trying to understand and figure Him out. At times we get so
caught up with “finding” God’s directions/plans for our life that we get
distracted or lost and miss the things that He’s trying to reveal to us in
those times. I’m reminded of Jeremiah 29:11-13 where it says- “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. Then you will call on me
and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me
when you seek me with all your heart.” Everybody knows Jeremiah
29:11 but what we all fail to realize is
the next couple verses after that, Jeremiah 29:12-13 which says: “Then you will call on me and come and
pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you
seek me with all your heart.” So you see there are some things
that we have to do also, we have to play our parts so God can do His. We all
know that God has a plan for our lives and we want him to reveal it to us but
we often times forget that in order for Him to be able to show us we have to be
in commune with Him, calling out to Him and seeking Him with all our hearts on
a daily basis. He will begin to unfold our plans for our lives when we are desperate
and truly ready to cry out and search for Him.
We have to except the fact that we will not always be able to fully understand why God chooses to do or allow certain things to happen in our life. We have to trust God enough to believe that He will keep His promises, that He will bring us out of the mess we’re in, He will provide for us, He WILL always be with us, that His love for us is unfailing, never ending, incomprehensible. Trust that He’ll be whatever it is that you need him to be in your life (e.i. father, mother, friend, comforter, provider, etc…). So today start trustin’… and stop stressin’… God’s got EVERY single detail of your life in His hands. Just TRUST HIM!! :)
Love y’all,
-Joy <3
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