This bible verse can be found everywhere and on anything. I have seen it on cards, art work, coffee mugs, calendars, etc. After seeing this particular verse so many times, one can become numb to the words and message. I know I was.
A couple weeks ago, I was sitting in church and this verse, along with others was discussed. The story used was the one of Abram and Sarai, later their names were changed to Abraham and Sarah. They both desperately wanted to be parents, but they never were able to conceive. After coming to the realization that she would never be a mother, Sarai sent her maid servant to her husband for him to sleep with. The maid servant became pregnant with a son. Abraham and Sarah were not patient with God's plan. The Lord had told them both that they would conceive a son, but they waited a long time and still no baby. Sarah decided to rush God's plan along and have her husband sleep with another woman and have a child. Many trials and tribulations occurred due to their inability to wait on God's plan.God was faithful to His promise and allowed Abraham and Sarah, in their very old age, to become parents.
Often I feel like Sarah in that I tend to try to rush along God's plan. I know that the Lord is leading our family to a place of ministry, but I would rather us be there sooner instead of later. I am not honoring the time in between the now and then. I find myself giving my husband job openings for positions that he is not quite ready for at this time. I am learning that if I try to get him to jump into something that God is not calling him for, then I am interfering with God's plan for Scott and creating more strife amongst our family.
I can have a tendency to long for "what's next" and ignoring the here and now. I am finding in doing so, I am not honoring God's plan, I am more focusing on Brandi's plan. Hearing this story I have heard hundreds of times hit me harder than I would have expected. I know that God has plans for our family, I know that I need to be strong enough to lay my wants and desires and His feet and follow the path He has laid before me.
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11
4 comments:
Yes, God's plans and ways are always better than ours. The lesson in the journey to our destination is sometimes more important than the destination; hang in there, God will be faithful to you:)
How many times have I rushed headlong into something because I thought I could do a better job of it than God was? Ugh! I hope I have learned my lesson!
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