“Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
    but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”

Proverbs 19:21 NIV

The faith journey can feel like a repetitive cycle

We read God’s Word, we go to worship, we listen and learn

We believe we understand and will now go and live according to what we have learned…then as humans tend to do, we try to take control and go off our own way and end up frustrated and wonder what happened?

Then it’s back to God’s Word and going to worship and drawing closer to God

And then off the rails again and again…

How can this cycle be broken?

When we get to a point where we are about to take some form of action or control, we need to pause, step aside and pray about it

Ask God what do you want me to do here?

Ask Him to give you wisdom according to His plan and then wait, watch and listen

If we don’t we could end up spending a siginificant amount of our time on something God never intended for us to be doing

The only way to find out is between you and Him

Seek the will of the Lord for your life and live your best for Him

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.  As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV

(This photo was taken near Arches National Park in Utah)