May My Plans Be Your Plans

I fret about everything: 

"The kitchen sink is overflowing with dirty dishes, guys! Do something about it and stop being such pigs!"

Well...I guess that's not so much fretting as just being plain rude and insulting with a double dash of impatient and short-tempered...but, you know what I mean?  Everything is always a big deal: "Where's the remote? UHHHHHHHHHH, we're doomed now!"

Anyway, I lost my point...btw, I also have a hard time focusing...

What I'm trying to say is that my heart is rarely at peace.  My hands are usually sweaty and cold.  My insides are always churning in anticipation for something to happen.  I'm always jumpy.  I don't like surprises.  I like to know how things are going to unfold.  So I try to control things in order to have a semblance of an idea of what's going on and how the future is going to develop.  The problem is...many times, my plans do go as planned!

Big surprise, huh?

Sigh...

The Lord, in His great mercy and patience is, however, not leaving me to my own devices.  He is leading me to a place where I can find rest in Him.  Today, as I'm fretting about a trip (a few trips, actually) God placed a short devotional reading in my hands that goes in line with what He is trying to accomplish in my life:  peace in renewed trust in His plan!

The reading was so impactful to me this morning that I would like to reproduce it here, praying it speaks to you as well:

"Come to Me with your plans held in abeyance.  Worship Me in spirit and in truth, allowing My Glory to permeate your entire being.  Trust Me enough to let Me guide you through this day, accomplishing My purposes in My timing.  Subordinate your myriad plans to My Master Plan.  I Am sovereign over every aspect of your life!

The challenge continually before you is to trust Me and search for My way through each day.  Do not blindly follow your habitual route, or you will miss what I have prepared for you.  As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts." (Sarah Young: Jesus Calling)

I pray, Dear Lord, that You will allow us to abide by You and to continually trust You and Your plan, for Your plan is perfect, even if we don't understand it.  May the Holy Spirit give us understanding and increase our faith.  Amen!