Good Morning and happy Monday! So I was reading a quick little 5 min devotional this morning to get my morning going. (always a struggle on a Monday
) While reading I came across this little line that I am sure I have heard a thousand times and I know it and I live by it but this morning for whatever reason it carried more of a punch. Now to precursor “the line” the question was “who do you say I am” (mark 8:29). Simple question right, in this verse Jesus is asking Peter the question, Peter answers you are the Messiah. Ok, cool we got that Go Peter good answer right?! With Jesus being the Messiah what does that mean to you? Are you giving what I like to call a “surface” answer? This is where “the line” comes in ” We must be willing to accept who HE says He is, not who we wish He’s be. It means following the path he walked of humility and sacrifice, giving up our right to be right.“
For so many people God is what we want him to be in that moment! He can be anything but the point is are we stopping and listening to what he is saying He is in that moment? Are we letting him completely take control and laying down what our wants and needs are and picking up his will for our lives? Giving up that right to be right, is hard so often we think that we know what is best for our lives and fight God over what we want, and we don’t allow him to be who He wants to be in our lives. What would happen if we stopped fighting Him and let Him be who He wants to be to us in that moment? We just might find exactly what we are needing and even wanting.
When I started praying about the World Race and Gods will for it. I got a departure date that I was not happy about. God was clearly telling me October 2018 and that was not a date I wanted. See 2 of my very close friends are getting married December 2018 and I had just accepted my bridesmaid proposal and I was over the moon excited for the 2 of them to get married and even more excited to stand next to the beautiful bride and be apart of the day. I fought God a long time on that date, I put my foot down and said “God I am NOT leaving in October before the wedding I will leave in January after the wedding I will not miss this, sorry no not happening.”
The more I prayed the more persistent he became about October so I finally talked to the bride about the situation and she was so supportive,accepting and encouraging. October made sense it fell right into Gods plan even if I wasn’t ready for it to happen yet!
In that moment God was wanting to be the writer of my crazy amazing adventure and I was not allowing him to be I didn’t want Him to be what He wanted to be, and there was a possibility that I was going to miss out on an amazing opportunity all because I didn’t want to listen. I wasn’t giving up my right to be right.
Who is God to you? Are you letting him be the Author, creator, father, lover or whatever he is trying to be for you right now? Give up that right to be right and watch mountains move, watch the greatest love story unfold right in front of you, because he wants only the best for you and he will not waiver or give up on that. 
