WALK WITH ME IN Holy Trust, responding to My initiatives rather than trying to make things fit your plans.
Dear Jesus, Thank You for making crystal-clear the choice we face many times each day: responding to Your initiatives in our lives verses trying to force things into our plans. When we choose responsiveness, we gain closeness to You and ready access to Your resources. When we try to make things fit into our plans, we usually become frustrated and anxious. In spite of these negative consequences, however, we continue to feel a magnetic pull toward the planning path. This sabotages our deep desire to walk in Your ways, responding wholeheartedly to what You have prepared.
Beloved, I am blessed by your longing to walk in My ways, even when your behavior doesn't line up with that desire. This is really an issue of trust. There is nothing wrong with making plans, but you must not trust in them more than in Me.
I am calling you to walk with Me as holy trust. "Holy" means "set apart for sacred use." Your primary purpose in this life is to be available for sacred use: ready to do My will. When you get so focused on your plans that you hardly see anything else, you are unavailable to Me. If you start feeling frustrated or distant from Me, take time to seek My Face. Open yourself to My loving Presence. The magnetic attraction of My Love will empower you to resist the pull of your planning path. This frees you to respond to My initiatives: joining in the things I have already set in motion. For you are My own handwork, born anew to do those good works I planned beforehand for you - taking paths I prepared ahead of time. Thus you live the good lie that I prearranged and made ready for you.
- Jesus
(Dear Jesus / Sarah Young)
Scripture Insight: Proverbs 16:9; Nahum 1:7 and Ephesians 2:10
"In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps"
ReplyDelete(Proverbs 16:9 / New International Version)
"The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him"
(Nahum 1:7 / New International Version)
"For we are God's (own) handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, (born anew) that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us (taking paths which He prepared ahead of time), that we should walk in them (living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live)"
(Ephesians 2:10 / Amplified Version)