When God Calls You to Trust Him While He’s Making You Who He Wants You to Be!

One of the hardest but most comforting aspects of this Christian walk is the fact that God actually knows the purposes and plans that he has for our lives. In everything we go through there is a purpose. When I was out in the world I thought I had a plan. My plan was to become a doctor, maybe move in with my boyfriend, and get saved later. All but one of those plans fell through. I didn’t think about the plan that God had for my life. I put aside the secret desires of my heart and I just used writing as an emotional outlet from time to time. I didn’t know that the thing that I considered an outlet was actually attached to my destiny. I didn’t know that God had a real plan for me.

We hear the verse “trust in the LORD with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths” but we don’t really apply it to our lives. We make all these plans and never think that God has a different one that will blow our minds. Well, God blows my mind every time he reveals a new part of His plan for my life to me. The plan that God has for my life reminds me that I am not my own and that I have to stay close to Him to get to the next part of my journey.

I’m in a new place in my life that I didn’t see coming and God is requiring some hard things from me. He’s teaching me to lean on him and not man. I like to get instructions from people, but I believe that God is getting me in a place where I have to get instruction from him.

Sometimes to get closer to God we have to forsake all others. We have to forsake that old boyfriend that God never intended for us to marry anyway, we have to forsake friends, family, jobs, and old habits. You have to be ok with allowing God to strip you to nothing so that He can build you up to greatness for his glory.

Do you actually believe that God can strip you of everything that man has done for you so that he can open up new avenues of blessing from his own hands? Are you even able to receive direct blessings from the hand of the Lord? Abraham was blessed when he cut off the things and people that God commanded him to. He didn’t know what would happen to him as he followed God. He didn’t know about the various tests that he would have to pass, but yet he still moved. He allowed God to lead him and to fight for him. How many of us can do that? How many of us can be quiet while allowing God to be God? Following God is a hard thing to do when you have a world mentality. That is why you have to be stripped so that you can learn who God is and what he can do.

In the world, you have to defend yourself and you have to prove a point, but with God, he is the point. He is the beginning and the end. If an action does not please God you have to have the discipline to know how to back away from it and leave it alone.

Taking directions has not been easy, but I know that they are necessary. Sometimes I ask God, how is he going to do everything that he says he will. I look at myself and I don’t see what he sees, but I know that the valley is the making of ME in HIM.

Israel had to be made. They could no longer be the slaves that served in Egypt. Israel had to become a people that served the Lord. They had to learn new customs and traditions. They had to put the old gods down and learn the true essence of worship.

Lord help me to be childlike. Help me to sit at your feet and listen for your instructions. Lord take way the worry and the doubt. Help me to trust you to do what you said you would do and help me to not grumble through the process. Lord help me to not be my own worst enemy and help me to remember that I am not alone. Everything that you tell me to do is for my good even if it does not feel good. Lord help me to forgive those that have hurt me and help me to let go of bad memories. Lord make me strong in you. Open my ears to your voice and help me to see the victories where I am in my life now. In Jesus name, Amen

Don’t be afraid to follow the Lord. Don’t be afraid to hear his voice. Know that all things are working for your good and that God is not like man that he should lie. Be encouraged <3

Recommended Reading:

Proverbs 3:5-6

I also recommended that you study the relationship that God has with Israel starting in the book of Exodus and leading up to the book of Joshua. Israel was going through a lot, but God remembered them and he saved them. God had a purpose and a plan for this huge nation of people and yet they desired to return to the very place that God had delivered them from. Stop trying to go back to people who God called you out from. You are a new creature in Christ, walk in that. I believe that these chapters will show you the growth of a people and you may also see yourself and your own life decisions through Israel’s relationship with God <3

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