January 10: While You’re Figuring Out What God’s Plan..

Affirmation: I am capable of doing anything I choose. I trust my intuition and insight.

“…Spirit of truth, will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.”‭‭John‬ ‭16:13‬ ‭NIV‬‬

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Ponder, Personalize, Practice: Continue to memorize & repeat this verse throughout the day. Make it personal. Ask God to show you the way you should go and affirm that you have put your trust in Him.

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. 

Psalm 143:8

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Walk in Grace, Live in Love By Bob Goff

                        Jan 10

While You’re Figuring Out What God’s Plan is For Your Life, Just Go Love Everybody. That’s The Plan.
 “As God‘s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.” Colossians 3:12
You know what’s delightful? Catching up with someone in their 50s or 60s and finding out they’re making an enormous career change. It reminds me we can always change and grow.

We tend to leave the risks and big life changes to college students or young professionals, as if skinny jeans were the gatekeeper. The problem is this: most of us spend our whole lives trying to figure out what we’re supposed to do with them. At some point, we thought we had found our colleagues, so we ran toward them. Then we rethink whether we’d be better off, using our gifts to serve in business instead of ministry, or as a social worker instead of a dentist, or as a Disney greeter instead of a banker. because we are given so many options and opportunities, it’s easy to spend so much time trying to find the ideal career that we miss our life. What comes from a good place doesn’t always lead us to a good place.

We all want to use our gifts. That’s a good thing. There’s nothing wrong with taking time to figure out the path that complements your ambitions and capabilities. We get into trouble when we become more concerned with all the potential paths we could take than we are about the people right in front of us.

Don’t get wrapped around the axle thinking about God‘s will “for your life“. God already showed us what it is. He wants us to love Him and love one another. It’s that simple and that hard. He doesn’t seem to have a strong opinion about the context in which we do it. He just wants us to give our love away freely.

While you’re trying to choose which road to take when you get to a fork, be sure to keep your focus on the things you can be certain about. God wants us to love others the way He loved us. That kind of love will free you up to choose any path with the confidence you may have been lacking.

Who have you been “planning“ to demonstrate love to? What can you do today to follow through on that plan?