5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
My life is not what I thought it would be. Like many people, I tend to be paralyzed by the myriad of choices in front of me rather than rejoicing in my freedom to take just about any idea and run with it. The only thing I have ever been / am sure of is that I want to serve the Lord and bring Him glory each day. For so long, I let Satan, the father of lies and confusion, twist this desire with guilt, fear, and a lot of my own misunderstanding about who God is and what He wants from me.
As wonderful as wise counsel is, only experience can truly teach you how faithful, loving, gracious, and sovereign the Lord really is. When I graduated from college, I felt like I was walking toward the edge of a cliff into the abyss below. As I look back on the 5 years since then, I would not trade a day for any other life I could have possibly imagined (or feared). I could not be more grateful for the LIFE He has given me. I've learned that I really am continually walking toward the edge, but rather than walking out beyond His grasp, I'm merely walking toward the edge of my own understanding. The mysterious, glorious truth is that with each step forward the Lord extends this edge just that much further beneath my feet.
God is God and that is more than enough for Him to be ever worthy of my praise, but when I look back on the entirety of my relatively short life thus far, I can also see the abundance of experience which has taught me just how deserving He is of all my praise, trust and obedience.
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6
1 comment:
ah roxie! your words bring sanity to my thoughts!
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