Some people have their entire lives planned out: they know what school they want to go to, what job they want, where they’re going to live…
Sometimes these kinds of people intimidate me. I wonder, “Should I be more like that?” or “Am I not goal-oriented enough?”
Because the truth is, I have no idea where my life is headed.
I don’t know what I’ll be doing and where I’ll be 3 months from now (somewhere in Guatemala….?), let alone a year or 5 years from now.
My future is so uncertain, and sometimes that scares me.
I have absolutely no plan for my life.
However, of this one thing I AM CERTAIN.
The God of this universe, my Heavenly Father, does.
Jeremiah 29:11 says, “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'”
I’m realising that maybe my job isn’t to have a well thought out and detailed plan for my life.
Maybe my job is just to be available and willing to say “yes” to wherever He leads me.
After all, God’s plan for me is a whole lot better than anything I could come up with anyway.
I don’t have a plan for my life, but I do have faith in a God who does.
So for now I’m just going to trust that He’s got this and follow wherever He leads.
Very soon I will be leaving all that is familiar to me to embark on the World Race.
I pray that I will wake each day and say, “OK God, what is YOUR plan for today? Who do YOU want me to love and encourage? How can I live today in a way that furthers YOUR Kingdom?”
To not worry about tomorrow or next year, but to walk boldly in the faith that I “am His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that [I] should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10)
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