Looking back on our spiritual journeys, we will see that we have held onto our own way too much of the time. When we come to the end of ourselves, God can begin to take control. The Scripture asks, “can two walk together, unless they are agreed?” (Amos 3:3) We cannot enter into the profound truths of God until we relinquish control, for “ flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.”
The glory is never so wonderful as when we realize our helplessness, throw down our sword, and surrender our authority to God.
God has a plan beyond anything that we have ever known. He has a plan for every individual life, and if we have any other plan in view, we miss the grandest plan of all. Nothing in the past is equal to the present, and nothing in the present can equal the things of tomorrow. Tomorrow should be so filled with holy expectations that we will be living flames for Him. God never intended his people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown.
Many things happen in our lives but when the veil is lifted and we see the glory of God, His tender compassion covers us all the time. How wonderful it is to be where God is.
There is a way that God establishes. In our human planning, we may experience blessings of a kind but we also undergo trials, hardships, and barrenness that God would have kept us from if we had followed His way.There is a freshness, a glow, a security in God where you can know that God is with you all the time. There is a place to reach where all that God has for us can flow through us to a needy world all the time.
There is a good; there is a better; but God has a best, a higher standard for us then we have yet attained. It is a better thing if it is God’s plan and not our plan. It will never fail.
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