Sometimes even the best laid out plans don’t work out the way we want them to. Think about your dreams as a child as to what you thought you would grow up to be. You dreamed about being a doctor, fireman, policeman, or other jobs and you planned it out. This plan became your plan A and how you wanted to live your life. You spent time deciding how you would accomplish it, but things got in the way and it just didn’t work out and now your living plan B. Sometimes we can look at our plans that have crumbled before us and it feels like failure. However that doesn’t mean that God is absent in your struggles for your plans. So many times Plan “B” is the plan that God has for us and we don’t even know it.
God is in control of us if we allow him to be and that is the biggest fear for most of us. Giving up the control and the power we have for our own lives. Wouldn’t it be nice if we all had a burning bush that we used to talked to God. You would wake up, pour a cup of coffee, step out onto my porch, look to the left and say, “So what’s on the agenda for today Lord?” The bush in the planter would light up, and God would give you your list complete with boxes for checking upon completion.
What I have begun to realize is that he did give me and you a burning bush, We just can’t see the bush through the forest. Too many things, are obscuring our view and confusing our hearing, but the bush was there all along. Things like bills, homework, practice, and test to study for block Our hearing. Then add meetings, entertainment, other commitments, and our day is full enough without the bush! When a crisis strips us, the tree’s get cleared and We can see the bush. When are we going to Wake up and discover that Our career experiences, schooling, and training are useless to use unless we learn how to thin the trees. One thing I do know, is that God is in the business of writing our resumes. And he makes sure that we have the experience and expertise required to fulfill the purpose of His will, not ours…
Let’s answer these three questions:
Who’s in control? What do we have to offer? Who needs our help?
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