“Today I submit:
My thoughts to Your thoughts.
My ways to Your ways.
My plans to Your plans.
My desires to Your desires.
My dreams to Your reality.”
Daily I need to wake up and repeat those lines. I so wish that submission was a one time deal. That I could lay down my will and dreams and walk away. But alas in my bossy boots, oldest child brain I so often turn around and take it all back. A few months ago when I struggled with understanding what He was doing He gave me a picture of a chess board. He said, “You can only react to the last move, but I can plan to the end of the game.” He is so much smarter than me, and He wants good for me.
I don’t understand it all, but I don’t have to. It is a little unsettling and daunting, but He has it in hand. My job is to listen and follow. He gave me Isaiah 63:14, “As a beast goes down into the valley, and the spirit of the LORD causes him to rest, so You lead Your people, to make Yourself a glorious name.”
As I reread this post before submitting the last line of that prayer stood out to me. Sometimes I say things (or type in this case) and only later realize how profound it is for me. It’s like those if/then questions. If His Thoughts are higher than my thoughts, and His ways higher than my ways (Isaiah 55:8); then His plans, desires, and reality must be higher than my plans, desires, and dreams. I have a pretty good imagination and some big dreams. I like to plot how situations will work out; and I often will visualize future events in amazing detail. I think my dreams are fantastic, so can you imagine God’s reality! Wow! (Welcome to my crazy brain.)
