I find that sometimes I want things to go my way. That I have to make them happen. "Maybe they're part of God's will", is what I tell myself. I justify my actions through that reasoning. Truth is, we don't know God's will so why would we try to guess what it is when we know that we'll never understand His plans for us? And if what you're trying to make happen is part of God's will, then if you don't try, it'll happen in the end anyway because God will lead you in the way you should go. This is a very frustrating thing to keep in mind because we want things to happen according to our agendas that we don't care about what's on God's agenda.
Proverbs 16: 1-3
People may make plans in their minds,
but only the LORD can make them come true.
You may believe you are doing right,
but the LORD will judge your reasons.
Depend on the LORD in whatever you do,
and your plans will succeed.
I find that the reason why we're so weak in letting God "take the wheel" is because we don't have enough trust in Him. We aren't dependent enough. We think that we can fix our problems ourselves and are scared of where God might take us when He fixes them for us. Sometimes even, it's because we're too selfish to want to stop sinning, or even give up our own plans for the LORD. We find comfort where we are although we ignore the pain, suffering, guilt and regret that come with our decision. We also tend to struggle with peace when we depend on our own plans. We get frustrated easily because so many things get in the way of our plans.
Isaiah 26: 3
You, LORD, give true peace
to those who depend on you,
because they trust you.
There are those two words again: depend, and trust. When you depend on the LORD fully and have enough faith, your plans will succeed, as says Proverbs 16: 3. Now you might be thinking, "Wait a minute Anny, didn't you just tell me not to be so dependent on my plans?" And I did, but when you make God the LORD of your life, then your plans will be His plans. Do you see where I'm going?
Psalm 37:4
Delight yourself in the LORD,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Before I go on talking about this verse, let's break it up. What does it mean to delight yourself? It means to enjoy Him and to enjoy doing what He called you to do. To enjoy serving Him. So if you enjoy serving Him, then all your desires will come true. Let me use an analogy to help you understand what that looks like.
You just got into a relationship with the love of your life. You enjoy doing what they enjoy and you love to make them happy. You start wanting to do the things that they like to do because you just love them so much and love pleasing them. You don't care about what you used to want, now you want what they want.
This analogy may not be the best, but it kind of outlines the relationship situation that you would be in if you delighted yourself in the LORD. His desires become your desires. So they do come true in the end.
So in order to have this awesome type of relationship with your God, you need not to worry about your plans, your future, or your past. You need to work on understanding the Scriptures and what God wants from you. You need to study who God is. You can't go into a relationship without knowing who the other person really is. Finally, you need to live out what you are called to live out. You need to do what's commanded of you in the Bible. This is very hard because there's a lot of pressure from the world to hide your Christian life, but when you start to grow your relationship with God, it'll be much easier to do what He wants you to do. Eventually, what you desire will match what God desires of you.
Proverbs 16: 1-3
People may make plans in their minds,
but only the LORD can make them come true.
You may believe you are doing right,
but the LORD will judge your reasons.
Depend on the LORD in whatever you do,
and your plans will succeed.
I find that the reason why we're so weak in letting God "take the wheel" is because we don't have enough trust in Him. We aren't dependent enough. We think that we can fix our problems ourselves and are scared of where God might take us when He fixes them for us. Sometimes even, it's because we're too selfish to want to stop sinning, or even give up our own plans for the LORD. We find comfort where we are although we ignore the pain, suffering, guilt and regret that come with our decision. We also tend to struggle with peace when we depend on our own plans. We get frustrated easily because so many things get in the way of our plans.
Isaiah 26: 3
You, LORD, give true peace
to those who depend on you,
because they trust you.
There are those two words again: depend, and trust. When you depend on the LORD fully and have enough faith, your plans will succeed, as says Proverbs 16: 3. Now you might be thinking, "Wait a minute Anny, didn't you just tell me not to be so dependent on my plans?" And I did, but when you make God the LORD of your life, then your plans will be His plans. Do you see where I'm going?
Psalm 37:4
Delight yourself in the LORD,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Before I go on talking about this verse, let's break it up. What does it mean to delight yourself? It means to enjoy Him and to enjoy doing what He called you to do. To enjoy serving Him. So if you enjoy serving Him, then all your desires will come true. Let me use an analogy to help you understand what that looks like.
You just got into a relationship with the love of your life. You enjoy doing what they enjoy and you love to make them happy. You start wanting to do the things that they like to do because you just love them so much and love pleasing them. You don't care about what you used to want, now you want what they want.
This analogy may not be the best, but it kind of outlines the relationship situation that you would be in if you delighted yourself in the LORD. His desires become your desires. So they do come true in the end.
So in order to have this awesome type of relationship with your God, you need not to worry about your plans, your future, or your past. You need to work on understanding the Scriptures and what God wants from you. You need to study who God is. You can't go into a relationship without knowing who the other person really is. Finally, you need to live out what you are called to live out. You need to do what's commanded of you in the Bible. This is very hard because there's a lot of pressure from the world to hide your Christian life, but when you start to grow your relationship with God, it'll be much easier to do what He wants you to do. Eventually, what you desire will match what God desires of you.
