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Tuesday... It isn't always a straight line.


Tuesday... It isn't always a straight line.

I know we don't use maps anymore but I still like to look at them. Have you ever looked at a map of the United States and looked at the boundaries of the states? Some of them are straight but others are crooked. Now if you look at the crooked boundaries you will see they are usually rivers and rivers are never a straight line. 

Now straight lines are so clean and they are shorter. We alway want to get to where we are going the fastest way because we are usually running late but maybe the fastest or the shortest or the most direct is not the best. 

Proverbs 21:1 (NLT) says, "The king's heart is like a stream of water directed by the Lord; he guides it wherever he pleases."  

Now we may like to live our life in a straight line. Get up the same time, go to work the same way, eat the same thing.  We like to live our life in a routine. That is an effective way to live but maybe that is not God's way. He has some different plans. He wants us to live like a stream of water. What God is wanting is for us to look straight at Mim, to follow Him instead of our plans, our way, our routine. 

Listen, maybe what you are going through right now is messing up your plans but maybe there is a lesson in there from God. Maybe He is working on changing something in you, making you more like Him. Maybe He sees that you need to rest and the only way you will do that is to get sick. Maybe He sees that your family needs more of your attention so something happens out of the norm. Maybe He wants to strengthen your faith so He brings a wobble into your life. 

"The king's heart is like a stream of water directed by the Lord; he guides it wherever he pleases."

There are reasons why streams do not follow a straight path. There may be a rock in the way or a hill or a valley to follow or so many different things. But it has somewhere to go. Usually to a bigger river and even to a lake or an ocean. It has a direction to go and we are directed by the Lord and He is guiding us wherever He pleases. He has a path, He has a plan, He has a purpose. 

In my life there has been a lot of movement but it has been a life that I have striven to follow God's direction. It has not always been smooth sailing. There have been some rapids but His Spirit has directed me though them. The key has been to keep my eyes, my heart on Him. 

Verses 1 & 2 in the Amplified Bible  says, "The king's heart is like channels of water in the hand of the Lord, He turns it whichever way He wishes. Every man's way is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs and examines the hearts [of people and their motives]."

The key is to have our heart in the hand of the Lord and be confident that He will direct it like channels of waters that go whichever way He wishes. And it isn't always a straight line but it is His way. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning



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