As we close out the night & continue in a new week, if I may present a quick affirmative to the featured quote: everything in your heart does not & should not be deleted. Some mind replays are there because it's a nudge from the Father about His designed end He has for you.
Today, I kept hearing, "I knew you would be here." As of late, there have been numerous full circle moments. Occurrences the Father revealed a long time ago would happen & many are occurring right now.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 shares that God places eternity in the heart's of man. We innately have a sense of purpose & knowing that only God can fulfill.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 AMPC
[11] He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men's hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Placement & connections help to facilitate the call but to truly discover the purpose of a person, place, thing...or your life generally, you have to take a deep dive into time with the Creator.
Nothing is by happenstance. God uses everything! Every experience, pitfall, your processes & success. He wastes nothing ❤️...in helping you to complete His purposes for you on this earth.
STOP DELETING.
START INQUIRING (of the Lord).
I believe some of us will miss out, if we draw conclusions about feelings aka "knowings" or nudges that we didn't consult God about.
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of my Grandmother's murder & also year six of official ministry. The trajectory for years was to prosecute & help families who endured similar circumstances then retire as a judge on an island somewhere :).
Until....
The repeated dreams...nudges..."the knowing..." that there was something more God had in store for me. This commenced the turn in not just my career but life. The murder (which also came with "a knowing"...will save for another blog) and "ministry" were all a setup for the more. As I reflect on the perfect way He has blended my love of law, program planning and education, I couldn't have orgistrated this part of life any better.
However, I recall sharing with my trusted counsel of this career change (I now know was actually an expansion), it was met by some with speculative questions, what are you doing looks, & a lot of non-verbalized why's. This was difficult because I valued their insight but it really came to I wasn't making this decision alone, it came from a nudging from the Lord. & I had to stand ten toes down in moving 12 hours away with no friends & family in a completely different climate to attend graduate school & also teach kids post law school. I didn't have a full understanding, if I'm honest. But I just "knew" God was leading me & there was more...greater ahead.
Hindsight being 20/20 I definitely made the right decision. Which has helped build my Faith in making unpopular or having no prior blueprint matters today. I learned to trust He has placed His designed end in my heart & with His leading, even if I don't have all the details, all will end well (in time...).
God has no limits - - invite - - ask for His insight for those pivotal decisions you're making that your heart just hasn't released. Some of our choices are a divine setup for that eternal path that the heart is set to, not just for us but all to follow.
Isaiah 46:10 ERV
[10] “In the beginning, I told you what would happen in the end. A long time ago, I told you things that have not happened yet. When I plan something, it happens. I do whatever I want to do.
Take comfort in knowing He knows your end from the beginning. He's set eternity (the future) in your heart. Follow His set path in sequence & order. The knowing...nudges...not to be ignored when the Lord lives in your heart, follow Him.
The framework of seeing the end from the beginning & making your life's decisions from it, is wisdom.
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