My Guardian
All my hopes and fears
Are in Your hands
I'm in Your hands
This week I have been talking a lot about the future. About my career plans and dreams of having a family. I've begun to firm up ideas on what I would like out of life, and that is scary. Because I am daring to hope.
Sometimes, when we want things to happen and we invest in our dreams, our hopes get dashed. But better that than to live without hope.
How can I have hope when things so often go wrong? I'll tell you. It's because of the God I rely on. It is in Him that I put my hope. And He does not disappoint.
"Oh yes he does!" I hear you say, "I've trusted God before and I didn't get what I was hoping for."
This is true. God does not always give us what we ask Him for. But:
Faith is not the belief that God will do what we want,
But the knowledge that He will do what is right.
In this post I am going to use two examples from my life at the moment: my house and my job. Both of these things were arranged for me by God, neither of them were what I had planned or expected, both of them have been far better than anything I had hoped for.
When I came back to my hometown, I had all these ideas of where I was going to live. I knew what I wanted, but I told God I trusted Him to sort it out. And lo and behold, every single one of my plans fell through. And, being human, I despaired. I railed at God, telling Him He didn't know what He was doing, asking Him how He was ever going to sort it out.
But then He did. Less than a week later, I found out about a couple of people I barely knew who were looking for a lodger. They were not on my plans list. They were not even on my friends list. But it was so clearly here that God planned for me to be. He chose not to follow my plans, but came up with His own. And who do you think has better ideas?
You go before me
You're there beside me
And if I wander
Love will find me
Goodness and mercy
Will always follow
You go before me
My Guardian
The second example is my job. I wasn't even looking for a new job when I saw this advert. But once I'd seen it, I knew I wanted it. It didn't fit in with my plans, but God prepared the way for me and it has been amazing, far better than anything I ever hoped for.
So I ask you this:
What is it that you are hoping for? In whom do you put your hope?
Trusting yourself to sort things out is great until you mess it up. Trusting in God, however, will see you true. You may not get what you expect, but you will get what is best. Put yourself in God's hands, and let Him carry you to places beyond your imagination.
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