“Let God shatter your dreams. He’s way more creative than you are about these sorts of things.”
(Micah Fernandez, Twitter, June 24, 2009, 10 pm)

when i read this twit, it really hit home. while i’m already living out this principle already, it still hard when God says no to the one thing that i’ve been praying for at that time.

i’m usually an easy-going person… well, in terms of goals and plans, at least. i’m pretty flexible most of the time. but when i do find something to hold on to and to want– and this happens once in every blue moon, i usually end up getting it.

however, the thing about getting what i want– it’s not always what it’s cracked up to be. and i eventually have to learn the hard way that it’s always better to lay my plans and my dreams at His feet. because, He knows and sees the whole picture– and He loves me! the thing about giving up our plans and dreams to our loving God is– who’s to stop Him if He wants the same for us? At least, when it does come true, we get what we want and know that it’s got God’s approval. And if we don’t get it, it means that there’s something better than that.

when i get a clear “No,” it’s still hard, and as disappointing. but the peace in submitting to His will, i find, is worth all the trouble of letting go.

this is not to say that stef is just taking things lying down.

i live and do the job that’s in front of me. i move forward in faith, doing what i know is right, learning as i go along. but sometimes, like a child tugging my daddy’s hand, i try to keep on moving forward. always asking, “what’s next?!” i’m still learning how to enjoy the moment, but i’m getting there.

i love living by faith. it’s not a life for the fainthearted!

¹⁴For this reason I kneel before the Father, ¹⁵from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. ¹⁶I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, ¹⁷so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, ¹⁸may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, ¹⁹and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

²⁰Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, ²¹to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

(Eph. 3: 14-21)