by David Brenneman
Our plans are quite often not God's plan. It's taken much of my life with Jesus to see and know that while there's times that He reveals what's happening in my life other times He's handing me pieces of a puzzle that I am not able to figure out.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9.
"O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Lord, You know it all. You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it. Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me. If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,” Even the darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You. For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You." Psalms 139:1-18.
A friend had encouraged myself and others to keep pace with Our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ.
Don't get ahead nor lag behind. Don't try to guess too much on what's coming, what's happening or what has happened.
Just as in the life of Job, of Ruth as well. We may get to know or may not in the life that's meant for us to live.
It's on us to trust and obey. Even when it doesn't make sense.
Sometimes, I have learned, we're given things or circumstances, because we are simply deemed strong enough by God to handle them when others cannot.
Sometimes we are shown things that others will not be able to see because it's not for them to know nor understand at this time.
God's plans are never rushed. He's never late. Never early. He's an always on-time God.
We see things from our finite understanding and jump to conclusions...usually the very wrong conclusion.
I do like to figure out puzzles. Figure out mysteries. I like to try things that interest me. I may succeed or I may not.
But we don't know until we try.
The key is to not get ahead of Jesus in what we think we can put our minds to be doing.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6.
Know who you are. Know who's you are. Lean in on His plans for you and take it a step at a time.
Pray without ceasing is to stay in communication with Jesus the Author and the Perfector of our faith.
Keep the pace, Keep the faith.
All NASB 1995 and NASB Scripture Excerpts used by permission. (C) Lockman Foundation.
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