Your salvation requires you too turn back to me and stop your silly efforts to save yourselves. Your strength will come from settling down, in complete dependence on me...
But God's not finished.
He's waiting around to be gracioius to you.
He's gathering strength to show mercy to you.
God takes the time to do everything right—everything.
Those who wait around for Him are the lucky ones.
Oh yes, people of Zioin, citizens of Jerusalem, your time of tears is over.
Cry for help and you'll find it's grace and more grace.
The moment He hears, He'll answer.
Just as the Master kept you alive during the hard times, He'll keep your teacher [the Holy Spirit *hint hint*] alive and present among you.
Your teacher will be right there, local and on the job, urging you whenever you wander left or right: "This is the right road. Walk down this road."
-various verses from Isaiah 30
And I got to thinking...
You see, I often wonder about the future and what'll it'll look like. Or how it'll turn out. All sorts of things like that. But the thing is, I have no clue what it'll look like. At all. Except that it's going to be an amazing adventure bcause I'm gonna let God write my story.
But until recently, I figured that I played a part in that. That a lot of it depended on me. I thought if I messed things up, or chose something God wasn't choosing, that I'd screw up all His plans for my life. That there would be no going back or any way to fix it. I figured that God would show me what I should or shouldn't do when the time came, but until then, I should just hang back. If I didn't do anything, I couldn't mess things up.
Boy was I wrong.
Jesus has shown me that it really doesn't matter what I do, or don't do. He's got it all figured out. And no matter how much I screw up or hit the nail on the head, it won't change anything. Because He loves me. And those He loves He blesses.
I can actually do the things I want to do. I don't have to give up all the things I like or the things I enjoy doing. I don't have to go shave my head and pray in a monestary for weeks on end. I can just be me. He can use that.
I can even totally, completely, horribly mess up, and it'll still be beautiful.
Because Jesus is in me. And He's gonna make everything work out. Sure I'm going to try real hard and not mess up. But if I do, and I will—it's okay. He'll get me through every valley, over every mountain, out of any maze. And it's going to be great.
