I am a fan of the exciting plans. I really am.
But, have you ever planned for weeks, pump yourself up, tell the world and then…boom. It falls apart.
I too have been a victim of the: PFP [plans failed plague].
It stinks.
And then another person approaches you with a promising plan and you have seemingly no other choice but to give them the look that says: don’t.even.get.my.hopes.up.
The PFP is a little raw on my soul today.
But today, I’m finding comfort in this verse:
God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us. -Ephesians 3:20
Question 1 -What does this verse say?
God can do anything. ANYTHING.
More than we could request in our wildest dreams [that’s big…I’ve got some wild dreams].
But when God does it, its not pushy. Its like a gentle nudge.
Question 2 -What does this verse mean?
see Q3
Question 3 -What does this verse mean?
I think a common reaction when our plans fail is to think that God has somehow forgotten us.
While my soul screams the truth that God never says, “Oh whoops…let that one slide, sorry Nicki.”
My heart feels so different.
How do we keep going? How do we keep planning? How do we keep dreaming?
When it just all never seems to work out?
I don’t have the answers to these questions today.
I just know that even when we don’t want to get our hopes up again, God has not forgotten the deep desires of our hearts. We have to keep trusting.
He’s not a bully pushing us all around. We are not puppets that he is controlling. We are free. Free to sin and doubt –but also free to trust and believe.
Trusting is gentle. There’s a deep place in the corner of our souls where we go and decide, I will trust.
Hold on to what is good, even if it’s a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe, even if it’s a tree that stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do, even if it’s a long way from here.
Hold on to your faith, even if it’s easier to let go.
Hold on to God’s hand.
-Anonymous
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So with you on this. My yesterday was a perfect example. OY spent the day in the ER with a friend’. I got the 6yr old ADHD only child watching duty in a crowded waiting room full of sick people. I hate germs. This was my day to revise my book proposal in PEACE at home! Yeah right. But sometimes I think our plans fail because GODS plan spares us from things that could hurt us. (not the red ink from my editor – ha ha) but bunny trails we might go down that would take us in the WRONG direction. I forget that in the moment but looking back I see several big gigs that were thwarted that might have had me tripped up. Thanks for sharing.
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