How are my fellow readers, this week?
My week started with my whole life playing over and over through my mind. I clenched onto my dreams even though I surrendered them to God weeks prior. I was so excited to receive the test results for National Bible Bee. Minutes later I found out that I did not pass (although making 201st place in my whole age division was quite an accomplishment!) as the week continued on, I started carrying burdens. I lost control. Stuff popped up I couldn’t control. I had no idea what my next year was going to look like. Stress kicked in, and shortly after came the bottled up feelings and concerns of my entire life. Oh how I battled with hearing the words “Let go” and “Trust me” come from God this week! Have any of you ever had those weeks where you don’t know what to do and just want to stay in bed all day and sleep away your fears, concerns, and problems? I sure have! I believe that God makes us go through struggles and storms to make us stronger and make us aware of His presence. Today I am going to share with you wonderful people what I’ve learned through this hard time, and what I’m still learning. My hope is that it encourages you and show you that you are not alone, and are not in control. And that's okay. How much are you willing to trust God with? How much are you willing to let go? I found out after my plans were overturned that I had only given God my future life and plans mentally, but not wholeheartedly. It’s so easy to lose sight of God’s perfect plan when our life seems scrambled up from our point of view. If God can freely tug at those things in your life that you treasure without you panicking and losing your gaze on Him, you are rooted in the right place. Are we clinging too tightly to our desires, or are we living at Christ’s disposal? Trust me when I say that choosing to let go of your entire life and leaving it in the hands of God is one of the hardest things you will ever do. Not being in control, and watching life happen before your eyes while living peaceably in Christ is ridiculous and dumb in the sight of the world. I myself have even thought of it as such! I mean, if you think about it, you are letting the life you are living GO, and giving your dreams to Someone else, and leaving your destiny in the hands of another! But, have we forgotten who it is that holds our destiny? The plan God is orchestrating behind the scenes is the perfect, most beautiful plan, ever! You may not know where you’re going to be living, going to school, college, church, or to work. You don’t know which people will leave you, enter your life, or stick with you till the end. We don’t know what tomorrow looks like, or even if we are promised it. But we have a God who does, and in Him our future is secure. Who do we have but God in this life? Who is more trustworthy than the One who made us, and formed us in our mother’s wombs? He knows our future, and He promises to prepare those He loves. When I struggle, I’m guilty of going to other people before God. I get so weighed down when I try to carry my weights on my own instead of leaving them at the feet of Jesus and trusting Him with them, instead. You don’t have to worry. God has already got it. Yes, that sentence scares me sometimes, because I don’t know what He is going to do with me or my dreams I gave him, but I do know that His plan is perfect. Mine is not. He sees. I cannot. He is God. I am not. We won’t have it all figured out, and we might as well give up on trying to make everything happen the way we want to in our timing. But Someone has this life more than we do. Someone loves you so much and knows the beginning from the end. Someone is in control when you are not, and He wants to do greater things than you ever asked or imagined (Ephesians 3:20). Does our life have to make sense if He already has it? Nope! So let’s stop being anxious (Philippians 4:6-7) and live in Him abundantly (John 10:10)! All will work out for the good to those who love God, and He will strengthen you. We’ll be tested and tried, but we’ll be in the perfect plan of God (Proverbs 16:9). If He is perfect, so are His plans for us! Nothing is better than that. Will you let His nail pierced hands hold you and mold your life into what He desires? I promise, no one can do it better than He can. Trust Him! Let go of your good for God's best. He is strong in our weaknesses! “I’ve created you for a unique plan, purpose, path, and masterpiece. I can’t work on that until you let go.” -God “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” -Corrie ten Boom “The wealth during Job’s life was one of the greatest of the men in the Bible, because all of his life and peace was in Me, not in the things of this world.” -God I Dare You #24- Write down all of the desires of your heart and all of the fears and concerns you have in a journal. Then tell God that you surrender those things and trust Him. One by one, watch Him perform in your life. Later you can look back and see how God’s plan works out for your good no matter what you see at the present. Thank God for His goodness and holding the answered and unanswered prayers all in His hands. I’ll join you! Comment below (or email me at [email protected]) if you are going to join me in this challenge, and how it goes! Love you all, Hannah
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AuthorHello, I'm Hannah and I'm so glad you're here! I'm a twenty-year-old Jesus-loving writer, National Bible Bee Alumna, and homeschool graduate. Jesus redeemed me, and now I give my life, and this blog, to serve Him. Hebrews 3:13 reminds us to encourage each other daily, lest we be hardened by sin. I hope that reading each blog entry that I post you will be encouraged and challenged to become more like Christ daily. |