I direct every motion of your life, as the ocean bears a ship. Your will and intelligence may be at the helm, but divine providence and sovereignty are stronger forces. You can trust Me, knowing that ny pressure I bring to bear upon your life is initiated by My love, and I will not do even this except as you are willing and desire.
This morning as I read the above - tucked away in a file that I hadn't visited for ages - this Scripture which I love came to my mind so I looked it up. I really like this NLT version .......
"We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps". Proverbs 16:9
As we make our plans according to our own wisdom, desires, goals, necessity or what have you it's SO assuring that over all of that God is directing our steps. This of course is as we serve Him and seek to do His will.
We don't always need to be planning and organizing and goal setting and vision casting but it's part of human nature to do that and it isn't a bad thing to do. Careful planning is necessary to success in life. But our plans and goals and vision may not always be exactly what God has in mind for us.
We do our best based on limited finite understanding. What a comfort to know that even as we do our best and occasionally get off course we're not going to go too far astray because we are being directed by the Master Planner ..... the One who knows what's best for us and how we can be most instrumental and effective in living our lives here in this time frame and this earthly sphere.
We are here for a purpose. The only thing that matters really is fulfilling God's plan for our lives.
"Not MY will, but Thine O Lord be done!"
P.S. Dedicated to those who knowingly or unknowingly by me are searching and waiting and looking for answer and direction in regard to God's will for their own personal situations or for others.
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