You HAVE to let God work.
Okay if you know me at all you will know that I like to do things for myself, and I'm always coming up with (crazy) ideas and most of all, like most other human beings on the planet, I like to plan out the way I think things should go. I like to think situations through in my head before they happen and imagine what it is going to be like. For instance: I like to plan out what I'm going to say to certain people, and think of all of their possible responses to what I say, and what I will say in response to that. (Confusing, right?) I like to imagine nice things I could do for people and how they will react, and I like to think about what friends I will make in any given situation.
What is the point of me telling you that? Well besides to showcase one of my many weird characteristics, I'm giving this picture to show how much we think we know as humans. Okay we think we know a whole lot. Let me tell you something: Unless you're one of those contestants on Jeopardy, or one of those kids on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader, (who I'm pretty sure know WAAAAAAAAYYY more than any fifth grader in the entire United States of America so it's not really fair...) YOU DON'T KNOW A WHOLE LOT! I mean yeah, we all know how to get to Stop & Shop, and how to make pasta, and how to use a vacuum, and how to read, but we know nothing about the future. About life.
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| that's to me not to you so don't be offended |
Now don't get all literal on me and be like "we know lots of stuff about the future because we have calendars and telescopes and we can track stars and the movement of the sun and lkjsflhkasjdfh..." that's not what I mean. I mean we're just dumb creatures. God literally knows everything and we can't even begin to think that we know what will happen at any given time. Just when we think we have it all planned out...yeah that's right. You get smacked in the face with something that you didn't expect and didn't plan for.
Humans suck at planning. Excuse me for saying it but we kind-of do. How many times have you shown up for an activity and it totally gets rained out? The weather guy said it was supposed to be 90 and sunny. grrrrr. What about the last time you had an entire conversation planned out in your mind because it was a really important thing, and the person you were going to talk to wasn't there? That has happened to me a ton of times. Or when you're driving to a class and you get a flat tire so you miss class? yeah that's happened to me too.
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| So. Annoying. I can't even. |
Basically what i'm trying to get across is the fact that God has the future planned. We don't need to go taking His job and trying to do it ourselves, like we could do a better job. Than God. Jeez people you're supposed to have confidence in yourself but not so much that you think you know more than God! God does insanely-amazing things through us but we have to let Him. If we're walking around thinking we own the place--that we know what's going to happen--we're obviously not in the right mindset to let God work through us. So try to have a prayerful heart and an open mind to God.
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| just do it |
Okay that's all the boring talky-stuff I have in this mind for tonight so listen to this song would ya? It's my current favorite Christian song and I think you'll like it as much as I do.
XO Charlotte
