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Proverbs 16:9 (ESV)

 

The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.

 

 

 

I love making to-do lists, organizing and basically putting things in their rightful place. This love was forced upon me once I moved to New York and realized how much space I did not have in my home. This new “forced love” has also trickled into many parts of my life, such as planning, events, scheduling my life and my workouts. It helps me stay on track and have a spirit of diligence; however, sometimes I just need to calm the heck down and let god do what He is planning to do.

 

Oftentimes, we go into control-freak mode and think we can change the course of very specific elements of our lives. While we can redirect the color of our hair with the help of dye or a hairdresser, making other things fall into place is not so easy. In our efforts to get God on our program we may also manipulate what look like well-meaning plans to try to get an ideal outcome for ourselves.

 

 

 

I don’t know about you, but when I’ve done that, many times my final thought is, “Well that didn’t go as planned.” I may try to work out more to train for a big race, only to get injured and not be able to participate at all. Or, I could work and study and strive until I have sleepless nights and live at work or school…then get demoted or not get accepted into the grad-school program that I worked so hard to get to. Perhaps I have been making a new set of friends with the intention of catching the eye of a specific guy, only to find out that he has a long distance girlfriend in Sweden. Fill in your blank as needed; but the point is, we need to stay on god’s course and want His will if we’d like things to go as planned.

 

 

 

I hope so very much that we will place our full, undivided, complete and sincere trust in the Lord and let Him establish our steps rather than come up with a course on our own that either leads to trouble, getting lost or a dead end. Let’s truly trust Jesus with our lives the way we say we do when we sing songs to Him, we will be much better off if He’s really in control!

 

 

 

Jeremiah 32:27 (NET)

 

“I am the Lord, the God of all humankind. There is, indeed, nothing too difficult for me.