Realizing once again that even though (I perceive) MY expectations to be good doesn't mean they will be God's will for me.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
Isaiah 55:8-9
The sooner I learn that each minute of my life is established, predestined, ordained... the sooner I can stop fighting and start living.....but honestly, though I shouldn't be, I'm discouraged.....the only choice I have in this life is to follow God or choose wrongly ...while following God should bring deep abiding joy...it doesn't always. 😢
It almost always means not having what I desire but what he desires for me.....I admit that sometimes he has better for me or he knows outcomes and I don't or he saves me from circumstances that could have harmed me....but I also feel like good things have been taken from me or withheld. That's just me being honest Lord... doesn't mean it's right thinking.... actually it is NOT right thinking!
Your Word proclaims:
"If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!"
"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows."
James 1:9
And this, which is often so misused and misquoted....
"Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart."
Psalm 37:4th
These are not MY desires! When I delight in the Lord HIS desires for me become MY desires. God supernaturally changes my wants and desires to align with what he already had planned for me before I was in my mother's womb. Before the foundation of the world. 😳
"...for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose."
Philippians 2:13
HIS GOOD PURPOSE.....not mine. Not MY wants, needs, desires, longings....NOT ME AT ALL.
"I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body."
Philippians 1:20-24
As I've written about expectations before....."a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future"....
I am reminded that MY expectation/s may not (probably will not) align with God's will for my life. Therefore, it will appear that God doesn't care about what I want at all.
"In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly."
Psalms 5:3
What am I waiting for? For MY request as I've laid out perfectly or HIS will which WILL be done?
I make this all sound doom and gloom and I am a bit down this morning....but in my heart I know that God desires good things for me. Why the discouragement? I think it's just one of those days that, in my discouragement, actually drives me to his word, causes me to seek him and know that his will for my life IS good. That his love for me IS enough. That his plan for me IS exactly what I need. That his timing IS perfect.
And what does he ask from me in return?
"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."
Micah 6:8
These are not MY desires! When I delight in the Lord HIS desires for me become MY desires. God supernaturally changes my wants and desires to align with what he already had planned for me before I was in my mother's womb. Before the foundation of the world. 😳
"...for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose."
Philippians 2:13
HIS GOOD PURPOSE.....not mine. Not MY wants, needs, desires, longings....NOT ME AT ALL.
"I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body."
Philippians 1:20-24
As I've written about expectations before....."a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future"....
I am reminded that MY expectation/s may not (probably will not) align with God's will for my life. Therefore, it will appear that God doesn't care about what I want at all.
"In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly."
Psalms 5:3
What am I waiting for? For MY request as I've laid out perfectly or HIS will which WILL be done?
I make this all sound doom and gloom and I am a bit down this morning....but in my heart I know that God desires good things for me. Why the discouragement? I think it's just one of those days that, in my discouragement, actually drives me to his word, causes me to seek him and know that his will for my life IS good. That his love for me IS enough. That his plan for me IS exactly what I need. That his timing IS perfect.
And what does he ask from me in return?
"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."
Micah 6:8
•Act justly
•Love mercy
•Walk humbly
"You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal."
Isaiah 26:3-4
How precious is God's word? Perfect peace promised to me!! The peace that passes ALL understanding!!
"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
Joshua 1:9
The Word of the living God....
I know it! I believe it! I speak it! I think it! I write it! I ponder it! I wrestle with it! I am transformed by it! And.....I am delivered by it!
Thanks be to God! The only God who can rescue me from the muck and mire of my discouragement and set me on the Rock.
Lord, today has only just begun. Help me, for you know I need it, to remember what you've shown me this morning.
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