Not My Favorite Mother's Day
It’s been an interesting 48 hours since I taught at Highpoint Church on Mother’s Day. And by interesting, I mean yucky.I headed home after services to crawl back under the covers. An abbreviated Mother’s Day celebration of a milkshake and some amazingly heart-warming cards and gifts occurred from a safe distance amid more hand sanitizer than I care to think about. I’d assumed that by nightfall I would’ve turned the corner and been over the crud that’s been plaguing my body since last Wednesday. Unfortunately not. Instead, I found myself at the doctor on Monday morning feeling worse than ever.Hmmm. I’m pretty certain that on Sunday I taught something like, “You must release your plan.” This was not my plan.Before moving on to other topics, I need to sit in this truth a bit longer. I want to get this one right. What about you? In one of the services, I made the comment that you can’t hold on to your plan and hold on to God’s plan. Our grip isn’t big enough for both; it has to be one or the other. Your plan or His… which will it be?[bctt tweet="Your grip isn’t big enough for both your plan and God's plan. So, which will it be?"]Back to today, 2 days of bed rest are now under way. I pray it’s not 3 or 4, but it isn’t my plan to make, is it? And as frustrated as I am that my body hasn’t been more cooperative, releasing my plan over a short-term illness is really a small example of what we must be willing to release.
What are the things you work so hard for?What are the things you hold onto so tightly?What are the things you’re driven to make happen?
God gives us passions to use for His glory, but sometimes we bypass asking Him what we should be passionate about and use that drive to accomplish our own plan. Ugh. I hate that reality.We must remember who our Father is, as well as His character, so we’ll release our plan and hold on to His promises. We have an amazing Heavenly Father who had the prophet Jeremiah tell us so clearly:
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.Jeremiah 29:11
He gives us a promise of a good plan… if we follow His ways.[bctt tweet="God promises us a good plan… if we follow His ways."]God has required me to release a lot of my plans this year. Ripped them right out of my hands. God has also clearly spoken some things that I must hold onto in faith because they are His plans, not mine. Learning to discern the difference between the two is part of the sanctification process.I challenge you to ask God to show you what your plans are versus what are His. He often doesn’t reveal His whole plan and asks us to hold on to His promise as His plan unfolds. That’s not what us “controller” types like, but it gently keeps us on our knees. And there’s no better place for us to be.
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