We have a difficult task.
We have to do adulting, but we are still leaning on someone else,
a bigger than our parents someone else. The God of all creation.
Jesus said, Follow Me.
it seems the more we follow Him, the more we end up not going our own way,
not making our own decisions and looking to Him for more answers to the perplexities of life.
It can be painstaking at times when you do what you think is best
and then you realize you have been doing what you thought was best instead of what God is asking of you. We do pray in The Lord’s Prayer: Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven.
Try as we may, things don’t always go as we plan.
There are major decisions that we have to make. We have to be good stewards of our time and finances
and share the gospel and be kind and do as much good as we are able.
We must try our best to do what Jesus wants us to do.
Even when we do all that, we can be disappointed or shaken when things don’t go as we plan.
It’s called yielding. Yielding to the Holy Spirit. It’s called relinquishing our will.
Sometimes we are given pause.
We are even stopped in our tracks and forced to go to our knees to find His will in any given situation.
We might not even understand how or why things didn’t work out as we expected when we were doing all we know how to do and trying to listen to the Lord and hear His direction.
When things don’t go as we plan, we are to do just that. Put all aside and find the Lord in the mix.
He will show us.
I’m changing jobs. The current job has good pay and great benefits in all aspects.
The new one is not quite as good with pay and benefits.
I had to relinquish my plans. I thought I would be there for many years.
However, that is not the case. It is not.
Things are not working out as I planned.
I gave up all my ambitions and yielded.
God was patient. He made things clear to me, but it wasn’t immediate.
Some time ago, I asked Jesus if He would please let me practice obedience,
even with small things so that I could get finely tuned, in sync with His Holy Spirit.
He has been doing that. It’s not always easy to know for sure God’s direction.
He has a way of making things clear and that is what I need sometimes.
The message I’d like to convey is that Jesus sometimes will interfere with our plans.
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. Proverbs 16:9
I do not want to be out of God’s will, even for a second.
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year,
and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. James 4:13-15
If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.