2016 was an interesting year for many, me included. The
year started with great Prophetic Promise and excitement. Then as the year
unfolded many of us received curve balls that we were not expecting. Our choice
was to go with what was cast our way, embrace it, and the find the purpose of
God in it; or get stuck and stifled right there, no longer moving towards our
destiny.
I discovered that even in the curve ball God has been
working His Master Plan for our lives. He seldom operates or does things the
way that we think that He will or should. After all, He is still sovereign and
has promised to do a New Thing. Why are we so surprised when He does? Because
it didn’t come the way we had the scenario worked out in our pre-conceived
ideas.
I for one learned this more than anyone this year. Even
though I have always preached that we can’t put God in a box and that He will
seldom do it like we think He will; yet when it happened to me, I was totally
floored. I made up my mind to embrace the assignment and in the process,
discover the why of the process.
So often we want to understand the WHY before we embrace
the process. That is not how it works. It is as we embrace the process that the
why is made clear. I discovered this year that God really does know what He is
doing even when we think He doesn’t.
Unfortunately, many never discover the beauty or irony of
how this works because they want it all figured out with a pretty bow on it
before they do anything. They are individuals with all the POTENTIAL in the
world who never live up to it because they can’t embrace a process they do not
understand. God has always operating an individual’s destiny as unfolding
revelation. He told Abraham to go to a land that He would show him.
Most of us would have said: “If you don’t show me where
we are going, I am not leaving.” Thus, we find the underlying issue why so many
never move past POTENTIAL. I read somewhere that the “Just Shall Live By
Faith”. If you know exactly where you are going, no faith is required. But when
you embrace that you are going where only God knows; then you are walking “By
Faith And Not By Sight”.
This year, despite being thrown a major curve ball that I
never saw coming nor ever expected or wanted, I discovered the purpose and plan
of God for my life by embracing the process. I now know why I received the
assignment that I did that I was not expecting. It turns out that God actually
had at least four reasons that I am aware of at the time of this writing, and I
am sure more will be revealed in the process.
My advice to you is simply this: Even when you don’t
understand the curve ball that seems to be thrown your way, embrace it and
yield to the process of God, as you do you will understand the why of the
process.
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