Love you all, praying for you!
Some things are a little unusual. Sometimes the unexpected happens – snow in April or May. What do you do when what you never expected, what you couldn’t even have imagined – changes an entire week, or a season, or your life? Something out of left field, that stops what you were doing or planning or dreaming? What do you do when it’s snowing on your lawnmower? You can let your human nature rule, or you can let the Holy Spirit reign. Some people have a very hard time with the unexpected, the un-anticipated. They just can’t stop wondering why, or talking about what should have been. They can never seem to see the silver lining, the opportunity in the obstacle, the blessing in the setback, or the forest through the trees. The first thing to go – is your tongue. When the unexpected happens, when setbacks come – and life is full of them. Guard your mouth – it directs your response. Even if your emotions are trying to go off – unchecked. Your words will always redirect them. God said – when times are good, rejoice, when times are hard, consider, God made one as well as the other. Rather than spending precious time – complaining, bemoaning, or pining over changed plans – Let your mouth be the first one to Praise. It comes down to a trust thing… Do you trust God or not? Was He taken by surprise? No, so if He planned it – what’s the plan? If He allowed it, what does He want to accomplish through it? It might not be just for you – it might be for someone else through you. God, what do you want me to learn and what do you want me to do now? or do while I’m waiting? Maybe if you can’t cut the grass, you can clean the basement – or clean someone else’s basement. Maybe if you can’t work – you can help someone else work, or encourage them. God knows the end from the beginning, and all the middle as well. When snow happens – Be the first to praise. When you don’t feel like it – is the best time to do it. When it’s hard to praise – that’s the time it becomes of greatest value to you. God has a purpose in this. If you ask Him – He will tell you. And if it’s not time to tell you yet, He will always tell you the first step from here. Even if that first step is “Be still, and know that I am God. Sometimes delayed seasons, changed plans and changed dreams, become the turning point and the launching point of what God has prepared you for. What if every time snow happens – grow happens? What if what was unexpected is exactly what God intended – to reset you, refresh you, renew you, and relaunch you? His presence is always square one. The next time snow happens – what if instead of asking why? You say “Here am I, Lord, send me, change me, use me? Praying that every time snow happens – grow happens. That you will praise and seek and rejoice and believe. That you will listen and obey and serve. Every time you face the unexpected, you can expect God to do great things. Nothing is unexpected to Him, just another testimony coming ! You might as well praise now! Love you all, dad
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