No matter how much you tell me you don't do this, I know that you do some of the time. Don't feel alone. Paul did this. He had plans galore but often was relegated to being available to "make it up as he went along with God. Two elements must be present for this to be successful. The first is faith in God and believing that he will never take us where he can't keep us. The second is being available without agenda to and for God in every moment of every day. As a result of the combination of these two principles, anything is possible. Anything! Wow! What would God be able to do with a few million people doing whatever he desires? People who are not preoccupied with their plans, their vision, their burdens and their bias being available to do whatever God asks when he asks. Is this even a concept that can stay put in your brain?
So, why don't we have faith in God? Would you like the simple answer or would you like to really understand? I don't want to waste God's time or yours if you don't/won't give in to Gods plan. Contrary to what many think, their "learned one" whom they look to for the plan, doesn't know the future. They don't know the future and their plans are constrained within the confines of their opinion. We don't have faith in God. It's that simple. We have "some" faith but not the kind of faith that Christ asks us to have. You remember, "faith to move mountains." It's true that I have kept with my plans above those plans God has had. Sometimes things seemed to work out for God's glory. Most often though the things I said or did fell incredibly short of the expectation God has for our life and the world we live in. We don't have faith or exercise the faith we have because we are not done with being the god of our own world.
Like children (and a lot of adults) in a long car ride we want to be "there" now. So instead of knowing that we will arrive we ask that question for which there is a guess but no concrete answer. "Are we there yet?" Did the car stop rolling? Am I shutting off the car? "No." We aren't there yet. And so we continue to be god of either large or small parts of our lives. Few among us look forward saying: "God has something good planned! I can't wait to serve Him." Here is a key. We are NOT in control of anything in our lives. Nothing. At least we shouldn't be in control. Our best is never God's best. Our plans are never God's perfect plan. Our intentions don't resemble His intentions often in our lives. We still want to be the god of our world. When our day/life is full of our plans there is little time set aside for what God wants. We make it up as we go along. We tell others that this or that is the will of God often without even checking with God. We make decisions and moves that when successful we say were what God wanted us to do. If things don't work out then we may admit that "things" weren't God's will in the first place.
Living each day with a faith focused on Jesus and what He wants is difficult at first because we need to stop relying on tradition, other's beliefs, and the like. We think we need to overcome when He has already overcome. Orchestrating our lives becomes primary all too often. What if we lived a life where we didn't know how our day was going to unfold? We would look for God's hand anxiously so that we could celebrate what He is or has done. There would be pleasant anticipation of the next "act of God" that comes when people are waiting and looking for what God can and will do. Living each day as God makes it up as we go along is a wonderful way to live. It's the intelligent thing to do. Let people see that God is running your life at your invitation. God's good at his job.
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