“Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.” (Proverbs 19:21 ESV)
Someone once said, “Life is what happens to you while you’re trying to live it.” I confess I often don’t like that quote. However, if you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, you will find this verse absolutely true. I’ve had to learn it often kicking and clawing each step of the way. I am a proud, stubborn soul. I don’t learn His Truth easily. How about you?
Are you stubborn and often proud of heart like me? If you are human, and if you are reading this, you probably are like me. Oh…we don’t like others to know of our frailties and cracks in our armor, but we, if honest, are a pretty needy lot.
I find the way I am wired, I look for ways to self-protect or self-promote. Sadly, if at the end of the day, if I haven’t achieved one or both of these fleshly, worldly pursuits, I find myself both frustrated and discontent. Can some of you relate?
It’s as if I’m on a tropical island all alone building up my grass and stick hut 8 feet off the ground so wild beasts and ocean floods will not reach my safe, secure world.
The frustrating and sometimes funny thing is that while I’m trying to prop up my hut stilts and posts with rope and vine, God is there trying to kick out my protective slats and 8 foot posts ruining my attempt at solving my life’s problems, troubles, and insecurities.
At first thought, it seems like He is not for me but against me!
Humbly, let us pray that each of us will learn to yield unto His way, His timing, His honor.
“Though he slay me,
I will hope in him...”
(Job 13:15a ESV)
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