BLOG ENTRY 20: The List

“No honey, nothing is wrong with you if you don’t fit on his/her list. You just don’t fit on their list. Build a bridge, get over it and know that God has so much more for you.”

         

 

         I get so tired of people getting upset and hurt behind not fitting into the expectations of others. We spend too much time wearing the weight of people’s approval instead of being happy with whom we are.

•     Am I good enough?
•      Am I successful enough?
•      Am I beautiful enough?
•     Am I smart enough?

          Yes, you are all these things and more. People’s expectations don’t define who you are. God sees it, knows it, and allows it all in your favor. 

Jeremiah 29:11 (MSG) says, I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.

          God has already planned out great things for your life. In translation, what God has for you is for you. Priscilla Shirer once said, “We don’t mind God being God as long as it fits in with what we have outlined. Are you pouting when you yield to God and yielding to him doesn’t yield the results that you thought it was going to?”

          We want God to adjust his plans on our terms to suit what we want and become angry when God decides to do differently than what we expected of him. The moment it becomes uncomfortable and the moment we don’t understand what God is doing then we lose faith. We get impatient with God when his timing doesn’t fit our timing. We get bitter with God when we begin to feel entitled to things because of what we did or didn’t do. We try to place God in a box, but he can do more and above what we could ever think or even ask for. So sometimes it takes for us to simply move out of his way and completely trust him. Sometimes it takes for us to continue praying even when we get weary that our will becomes his will and that our ways become his ways. He wants us to completely trust him with our whole hearts.

          I want to know the fullness of God and I can only do that by letting go. All I have to do is purely trust him.  

         And if the truth is told when it comes down to it then the only list I really need to be on is God’s list. So if I am not on your list, then hey you're probably not on mine either because the path that I am following is the will of God. 

         My word to you is to believe in yourself and be confident. Do not let rejection of people cause you to doubt who you are in God. It is okay not to be on someones so called list or agenda. It does not make them a bad person, but that is not God's plan for you. God's desire is to give you his best for YOUR life.  We must accept that he knows what he is doing and that his favor is upon your life.