It's been said, "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes then you just might find that you get what you need." Today has been an example of this saying.
Today is Monday, our team's day off, and as such a group of us elected to go climb a mountain near Gulu. Sadly, our van (affectionately dubbed Belinda by the girls) broke down not 1/4 mile from the hotel, causing a rerouting of plans forthe day. Amidst the aggrevation and realization that we would be climbing no mountain today and that our day off hardly felt like a day off, I began thinking about my attitude, my expectations, and how my plans facotred into God's plans. Simply put, my plans are a joke, and I think God laughs at them a lot.
Take note: God laughs at your plans. His Word says it is so.
But that's okay, because our plans are terrble shades of the glorious plans He has for us, plans we can't even comprehend. I heard our host, Pastor Johnson, preach at the pryer hour at Victory Outreach Church, and he spok of putting our hands to do good work for the Lord. I was challenged and reminded that I am hear not for the days I have off, but for the days I am working. That is my mission: to work. If I have any other plans than that, I can be sure that the one enthroned from eternity to eternity will simply look down and laugh.
But doesn't a father laugh at His children?
Thank you to everyone who has commented on my posts thus far; your words are an encouragement to me, and it brings me such joy to know that there are those back home who care about me even when I'm far.
I am thankful for journals, ladders that I can climb to see the sunrise and think, thunderstorms, the promise of the new heaven and new earth, the realization that I am not alone, and the elation of belonging. Oh, how I belong in the Savior's loving arms.
"Come away with Me, come away. It's never too late, it's never too late, it's not too late for you. I have a plan for you; I have a plan. It's gonna' be wild, it's gonna' be great, it's gonna' be full of Me." That's the song that the Lord keeps replaying in my mind.
Pray for us, that we may be one and unified as Christ is unified to the Father. Pray for me as well, that I might be courageous and a warrior in prayer. I ache for passion in prayer, sincerely.
God wins.
PS. God has put something new on my heart, something that I will consider more intentionally when I get back, but nonetheless it remains a new thought – a persistant one at that.
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