Higher

It’s that time of year again-when schedules for the next semester are published. When there are so many requirements to be met. When I’m expected to exactly where I’m going and what I’m doing with my life. So many times I have asked God what I’m supposed to do. Help others? To better myself? To get married? To make money and support a family? To leave this world a better place? I think these are all good goals, but instead of asking the Lord to tell me what I’m supposed to do, I should let Him use me. Isaiah 55:9 has been on my mind all this week:

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”

The more I feel myself striving to understand what He has called me to do, the more I feel myself distancing from Him. When I try to “figure it all out,” I’m blinded, unable to see how He is moving. He asks us to give up our own plans so He can use us without restraint.

Instead of asking him what I’m supposed to do, I have started asking where my passions lie and for whom. And more and more I’m discovering that my passion, my purpose, the focus of my life is so much simpler than I thought. All I want is to enjoy Him and to joyfully honor Him with my words, my actions, my life.

If you’re struggling with this, I pray that you will give your worries to the Lord, and remember that He is using you. Remember that through the Holy Spirit he is using us in some way-whether we realize it or not.

So I’m going to try to be patient and have faith. He will tell me where to go when I need to go. He will tell me what to do when I need to do it. He will tell me what I need to know when I need to know it. His timing is perfect.

So I'll do my best to surrender my ways. They're not my own. I’m yours.