It’s gonna be wild

There are times when we do not understand the way God works. In my life, I have not understood why God allowed certain obstacles to crop up in a friend’s life which (in my eyes) seemed to interrupt and jeopardise her journey towards knowing Him. I have not understood why a ministry which seems to be good and fruitful may soon come to an end. I have not understood why God would impress upon me that He wants me to walk down a certain path and then make the road so incredibly rocky.

But I have to trust that God knows what He is doing. If God puts an end to something good, if God throws obstacles in our way that threaten to sap every ounce of our energy, then it must be because He has something even greater in mind to accomplish. I may not see it now. In fact, I may not ever see it in this lifetime, but I know that if we are walking in God’s ways, His purposes for our lives will prevail, and those purposes will be for our good.

I think, so often, we want to serve God in ways that we feel we are able to. We want to grow spiritually in ways we feel that we should. But God is God, and He has plans of His own.

This is part of a song that we sang during a worship service recently. It’s from the song “Come Away” by Jesus Culture:

“I have a plan for you
I have a plan for you
It’s gonna be wild
It’s gonna be great
It’s gonna be full of me”

I have to trust that God will bring to pass the promises that He has made to His children – the promises found in the Bible as well as the personal promises that He has impressed upon our hearts. And I have to trust that God will honour every genuine desire to impact this world for His Kingdom. And thus, whatever my future holds, God is going to be right in the middle of it. It’s going to be full of Him.

If I want Jesus to work in my life and use me for His purposes, then I have to let Him, and wait, and watch Him do more than my finite mind could ever imagine.

“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” (Ephesians 3:20-21)

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Photograph (by R Tang): Stepping stones, Winterbourne Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, 2010

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