"It Just Wasn't What I Expected"

"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:9 , NIV)

 
 
I can't tell you how many times I've muttered to myself, "It just wasn't what I expected". The truth is broken dreams leave a trail of heartache and disappointment BUT when surrendered to God lead to something far greater than we could have ever hoped for or imagined.

There is a sweetness in surrender...a shaping...a molding...a transformation; surrender refines our ambitions, clarifies our direction, and transforms our character.

You see, personally, I'm not entirely sure I know where I'm going; I'm re-learning to put one foot in front of the other, trusting God to lead me where He wants to take me.

I think that's a good place to live...NOT having it ALL figured out...NOT trying to orchestrate every step...NOT trying to accomplish BUT to simply follow, day by day, and do the next thing God requires...To listen to Him and follow His lead...to NOT pray Lord grant me this or that, ALL the time, BUT to pray Lord what do YOU will...What do YOU want?...To allow His Word to search my heart and reveal wrong ambitions, attitudes, and motives that I've somehow hidden, even from myself.

Hebrews 4:12-13 says, "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account." (NIV)

Do you find yourself frustrated? Questioning "WHY" "WHEN" or "HOW"? Then I encourage you to take a step back and surrender it all again.

God's plans are far greater than ours. His ways much greater. AND His love and good will toward us is breathtaking! He really does love us. He really does care. He's just waiting for us to trust Him. He wants to turn our frustrated declarations of "It just wasn't what I expected's" into amazed exclamations!

Life rearely turns out exactly like we expected...but surrendered to God can turn out far greater than we ever imagined. After all, our hope is not for this world alone...our citizenship is of another country...and as it is written..."No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" (1 Corinthians 2:9)

May God bless you abundantly...have a great weekend ! :)

PRAYER: (taken directly from Ephesians 3:20) I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.