So last week I wrote about how Hillary Scott's "Thy WIll" is teaching me to let go and let God write his plan for my life (which can be found https://www.theodysseyonline.com/thy-will-done-lord). Sometimes following God and letting Him take control of our lives requires us to adapt and change our plans or even surrender them altogether. It can be hard to do this, especially when we are so sure we're already following God's plan and He reveals something new to us.
In the last month, I've had to change my post-undergrad plans in order to fully follow Him in His will for my life. He revealed something to me that I had wanted to do for so long growing up, and it wasn't until I went to a talk last Thursday when I realized that God uses things we desire in our childhoods or what we want to be when we grow up, that He was using my desires of what I thought my career would be growing up to show me that it had been in His miraculous plan all along. The speaker talked about how she became a nun after God had placed that desire on her heart when she was in college and she had wanted to be growing up.
When God did place that desire on my heart to be what I had wanted growing up, it was definitely a curve ball to what I had been planning to do with the rest of my life to that point. It has taken a lot of prayer and talking with my adviser and the professor who teaches the intro class for the subject I had been considering changing my career path to, to come to what my current plan is for my career. And it'll take a lot more prayer and discernment through observing and shadowing to confirm if this is really what God wants me to do. If it's not His plan, I'm OK with that, because I know that whatever I do end up doing I'll be happy with since I know I'll be following His plan for my life.
Jeremiah 29:11 says, "For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." I know that God will use me and His plan for me to create a better future for myself and those around me. I know I can rest in His promise to reveal His plan for my life when the time is right.
Sometimes we have to change and adapt our plans in order to follow God's plan and sometimes He uses our childhood dreams/favorite games or activities to show us what He wants for us. I know I've had to change my plan multiple times to do this, but I know that I'm following His plan in the process.
