I used to doubt God’s plans. I wondered if maybe my ideas were better than the ones God had for me. Or perhaps I just couldn’t imagine that God had plans for me at all. Perhaps He was just silently watching me, grading me as I figured things out. Or didn’t.
No. He would not give me life and leave me alone to figure it out, any more than I would do that to my own child. In everything, God provides a framework and order — in a clam, in a hurricane and in a stratum of earth. And He put one in me.
His word shows me how to have a relationship with my Father so I can glorify Him by using His wonderful order and gifts to His delight—and mine! He has plans for me and I can align my life to those plans and create within them!
There is freedom in God’s order. He doesn’t need me to redo what He’s already done. I believe He wants me to express my love for Him and this life He’s given me by valuing my talents and gifts and using them to create more beauty and goodness around me. Celebrating what God has intended and provided for me will always lead to a surprise harvest of more blessings.
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10
Meeting God at the Park 