For about a year I have been thinking, talking about, and planning where we will go and when. Ha, wouldn't you know it, I might not get to be in control of that! What?!? Oh yeah, I said I was allowing God to shape my life and go on His leading. OOPS, forgot that part! As with everything in life, and the military, it most likely won't happen on MY schedule.
You'd think I would know this already. Allow God to do His work and wait on Him. He has a plan for our family and He is working it out in His timing.
"Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit"; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that."
James 4:13-15
Ok, ok. Again, I give it back to the Lord and wait on Him. Wow, I'm such a sheep!!
I just wanted to say that I didn't roll my eyes because I have been dealing with the control issue too. Personally I think my issue is that I felt so out of control with life when we were growing up and life was out of control that I feel the need to control things for security. But as you are finding out I too have been getting some eye opening truth that I can't be in control and life is better for my family, and me, when He is in control. So chin up sister, and hopefully you will find comfort in knowing you're not the only one who would love to control life. Thanks for the comfort you gave me while I was reading this, I feel alone in that endevor most of the time. Nice to know I'm not. :)
ReplyDeleteI too would love to have a little control in my life. Especially in the military where we control soooooo little! But we just have extra opportunities to.surrender to the.Lord. What a priveledge to learn this lesson......repeatedly.
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