Director of Our Steps

Good Morning girls!!

I thought I should start with this particular verse this morning, since yesterday morning did not go as planned for me...and you did not receive this email as I had intended! :) Let's just say being sick does not have its benefits!

So let me dive right in...Proverbs 20:24

24 The Lord directs our steps,
so why try to understand everything along the way?

Honestly, girls, whose path are we choosing each and every day?

Are we forcing our own way? Or are we actually putting our trust in Him hour by hour and allowing Him to lead, guide, direct our actions, words, and thoughts, ultimately for His glory?

Answer these questions to find out:

1. Do you turn off your God sensor in the heat of the moment?
2. Do you assume you know what God is doing when He seems to allow fires in our lives?
3. Do you sit and try to figure out His rhyme and reason for allowing things to happen?
4. Do you get so caught up with getting answers that when you don't get them, you are paralyzed in thought and in faith (like a scratched CD skipping the same note over and over and you can't get past it)?
5. Do you demand to know what it all means and when you don't, you become combative, irritated, annoyed, angry and then take it out on the person that is involved in the situation with you?
6. After the fact, do you look back and see the needlessness of the chaos you just created for yourself?
7. Have you ever felt the desperateness of trying to figure things out and in order to do so try to fit the situation into the scenario in your head, knowing in your heart that your probably wrong??

I know! Me too!!

Let's just say, that since writing these thoughts on Proverbs, my brain has been forced to wrap itself around the root spiritual issues that do not come easy. And the root of this Proverb is trust. Trust in a God who knows best. Trust in a God who has your best interests at heart and who want to bless you mightily! Trust in God's plan for your life, whether you get it or not!

Proverbs 3:5 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Seek His will in all your ways and He will direct your path."

From a human perspective, trust is not easy. It does not come naturally to most of us. Especially if the people around us on earth have failed us in the past. (And if they haven't yet, well, they're bound to in the future. Right?) And when we DON'T understand the why of what is happening, that makes trust almost an impossible thing because humanly we can't make sense of the situation.

But the Lord is so different, for He cares for us inside and out, from the minute to the grandiose. He will not let us down or let us go. He is beside us no matter what. And nothing will separate us from His love.

One of my favorite Psalms is 139:1-24. If you ever doubt God's investment in YOU, just read this!

Psalm 37:23-24 "The steps of the godly are directed by the Lord. He delights in every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will not fall, for the Lord holds them by the hand."

For God knows all things throughout the continuum of time and space...the past and the future are one story line to Him, with no gaps, no breaks, no unanswered questions, or undone deeds. We all play a role in His story ("His story = history"...I know you've heard that before, but the 6th grade history teacher in me just came out with a vengeance) and it is He who is directing our path, whether we acknowledge it or not. (I will say, things seem to get a little easier when we surrender our will to His...and fires that we must walk through will refine us, but not burn us.)

Today, just today, see if you can give up that whirring in your brain that has to make everything "make sense" to YOU. See if you can keep your mind from jumping ahead a week, a month, a year, a decade...and instead live in the moment. See if you can love those in your path TODAY regardless of what they've done in the past or going to do in the future. And see if you can allow God, THE GOD who created the universe and who knows how many hairs you have on your head, to take the place as the HEAD of your life and the head of your heart.

Our God is greater than the pain, the questions, and the frustrations of this life. We don't need to know why or even how...all we need to know is that He uses all things for the good of those who love Him and live according to His purpose (paraphrased Romans 8:28).

This is my prayer for your heart today, as well as mine.

Love Mamas!! Enjoy this rain if you're in SoCal!

Rebecca