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13 years ago @ Lindsey Nobles - My Next Right Step · 0 replies · +1 points
Something I couldnt agree with more! Veyr often I only know the next step ahead of me, this doesnt mean that God doesnt have plans for my life and it doesnt mean that I dont have dreams, I often have dreams but theya re not always in line with Gods plans, at the end of the day I have a choice, run with my dream or run with Gods plan, guess what, God wins each time.
I think it is all too easy to look at what others are doing and think 'if only I was more like that' well the fact is you're not you are you and thats just as well coz God needs you, to fulfil his plans in your life, even if you are only given 1 step ahead.
I think if I had been given the whole plan, or even a significant part of it, I would have bloted out of the door years ago, I didn't sign up to soem of what I have had to do and deal with right from day one and had I known I am not sure that I would have signed up to it!! Sometimes there is a good reason why we dont get the whole picture.
e.g. I am the father of 2 very special children, but we adopted them because we couldnt have children of our own, we didnt sign up to that when we married, our plan, our dream, was to have a lovely home and a lovely family, 2 kids of our own to lvoe and cherish, yes we go the 2 kids but not the conventional way, add into that, we choose, because we felt lead by God, to adopt children with special needs, but had we known what that entailed there is no way we would have signed up to it, the sleepless nights continue even though the youngest is 9, it is rare for us to have a whole nights sleep, we are changing 'diapers' on a 15 year old boy, we have had to buy a more expensive house than we can afford, on paper, in order to accomodate our families needs. we face regular, almost daily, battles with health, social service and education services to get the children the services they need.
All this whilst sufferign chronic depression and fatigue, not what I signed up to when I became a Christian! But its what God had in store for me and I am so glad he never placed these thigns as dreams in my heart, as things to anticipate and look forward to.
I think it is all too easy to look at what others are doing and think 'if only I was more like that' well the fact is you're not you are you and thats just as well coz God needs you, to fulfil his plans in your life, even if you are only given 1 step ahead.
I think if I had been given the whole plan, or even a significant part of it, I would have bloted out of the door years ago, I didn't sign up to soem of what I have had to do and deal with right from day one and had I known I am not sure that I would have signed up to it!! Sometimes there is a good reason why we dont get the whole picture.
e.g. I am the father of 2 very special children, but we adopted them because we couldnt have children of our own, we didnt sign up to that when we married, our plan, our dream, was to have a lovely home and a lovely family, 2 kids of our own to lvoe and cherish, yes we go the 2 kids but not the conventional way, add into that, we choose, because we felt lead by God, to adopt children with special needs, but had we known what that entailed there is no way we would have signed up to it, the sleepless nights continue even though the youngest is 9, it is rare for us to have a whole nights sleep, we are changing 'diapers' on a 15 year old boy, we have had to buy a more expensive house than we can afford, on paper, in order to accomodate our families needs. we face regular, almost daily, battles with health, social service and education services to get the children the services they need.
All this whilst sufferign chronic depression and fatigue, not what I signed up to when I became a Christian! But its what God had in store for me and I am so glad he never placed these thigns as dreams in my heart, as things to anticipate and look forward to.
Brainchild