Daily Scripture Verse – Proverbs 20:24
Proverbs 20:24 – 24A man’s steps are directed by the LORD. How then can anyone understand his own way?
Another amazing insight from the book of Proverbs. In my life…this rings true on a regular basis. Sometimes God gives me some foresight into the road ahead…but more often then not, I see the plan in the ‘rear-view’ as I continue my journey to the next part of His plan.
I’m sure there are plenty that will argue that free will is what governs us. I’d challenge you to think of this for a second. A master luthier (guitar/stringed instrument maker) spends months shaping and forming his next creation. And when the finishing touches are put on it and he sits down to play it…wouldn’t it be an absolute shock it the first string plucked sounded like a trumpet… My point is that God made you. He knows every aspect of you. Every facet of your personality, your mind, your being. To often our minds take the phrase ‘God made me’, and turns it into the visual of God piling up so dirt…mushing it into a humanoid shape…and then ‘say the magic words’…PPoofF! We have human. God created more than that. He created the way you perceive things, the environment you’d be exposed to, your ability to interpret things…and the way you see the world. With a hand in creating all of that…it would probably be pretty easy to create us so that we were prepared to take the journey He had in mind for us.
Prayer
Lord,
I praise you for I am ‘fearfully and wonderfully made’. Some days I feel overwhelmed with the tasks set before me. Help me to use the abilities that You have created in me to accomplish the tasks that You have given to me. I love You. I know I don’t say that enough. I love You. Thank You for loving me first.
Amen .
November 1st, 2009 at 11:35 pm
This Bible verse spoke to me so much! Everything in my life that is going on right now is nothing like I had planned or envisioned for my future, in terms of school, my career path, my goals, and finding the man God has selected me to be with. But as I started drawing closer to the Lord, I noticed that my desires started changing, my goals and objectives in life began shifting… things that I considered priority before are slowly taking the back seat. As I started drawing closer to Him, my desires became focused and based on glorifying God with this life I have here on earth. I told the Lord that I was surrendering everything to Him and that I don’t care what career I end up in as long as I am doing minsitry work first and foremost. I also told God that I don’t care what man I marry as long as the man I marry is truly committed to the Lord and will serve the Lord with me; I asked the Lord to allow me, to enable me to rule out my fleshly desires in order that I may desire Him more, love Him more and seek Him more. In such a short amount of time within my prayers, the Lord has lead me to where I am now. Still in school, working part time but more involved in minsitry work as I prayed for and marrying the man I believe God has called me to be with (though I never expected I would marry him before)… But God has turnd my world around, turned it upside down, and alot of things in my life are not going as I had always thought and planned they would… But I am happy, content, at peace and most of all I trust the Lord with everything He has brought on my plate because my Lord knows me more than I know myself! He knows my capabilities, my strengths, my weaknesses and He knows me from the inside out. My God is good and faithful!!! Truly, the Lord directs His children’s steps, so I will just trust Him and not question Him.