On Surrendering to God’s Will and Plan for Your Life

 Perhaps there is a really high paying job that someone offered you this year, and you set your full heart into it.  Believing that it is already yours.Or everything is going smooth sailing in your relationship with your girlfriend or boyfriend and you both perceive that it would end up in marriage. Or it could be that every single business venture that you have ever entered into succeeded making you an early millionaire. You have a house, you never had to think where your next paycheck would come- everything is going so well for you and then all of a sudden you are diagnosed with Kidney Cancer? You discover that your partner is cheating on you, your business collapses, your for some unknown reason you feel depressed and empty without fully understanding why?

You could also be the kind of person who had to fight their way through life, you had to earn your scholarship. You took the time to study, strive, and you dedicated all of your time and passion to working and serving your company but after several years, you don’t get noticed or  promoted. Out of frustration, you seek another job and get a better salary  but suddenly the  manager assigned to your team is selfish, domineering and gives you a hard time no matter how hard working you are. Leading to never ending frustrations, making you finally look up to the heavens to ask ” Lord why me”?

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When your life is smooth sailing, when everything is handed out to you it is hard to remember the Lord, on the other hand  if your life has always been hard and full of toil you can still fall into the trap of believing that everything that you have right now is a result of your own hard work and that the Higher Forces in the Universe have no part in it. And yet, one way or another something happens, something suddenly and abruptly changes your course, your pace and no matter how much you have tried to avoid something- these changes begin to take over the course of your life. Making you realize, that you are in fact just as human being, and that even though for the longest time you have believed that all the answers and solutions are within reach, all of the trials in your life and all the experiences were designed to make you understand that your life is not yours to decide upon. And that all is dependent on God’s Will-

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Although scientists and countless of Philosophers and wise men tried to offer humanity answers and solutions, we remain as confused and baffled as before. So many teachings have led us to think and believe that finally we know and understand Life, or our existence and yet time and time again. The angelic forces, and God continue to baffle us,  its as though every circumstance in life is telling us to look up, reconsider our life. And even ask if we have control of anything at all.

The truth is we do not have any control over who our family members will be, we do not have control on what kind of job we will be doing in the future. We don’t know what kind of future we will experience, which friends will remain and the ones who will fall way. Whether we will still wake up tomorrow could only be decided by the Lord.

As humans, despite the so called technological progresses we remain ignorant- and in the mercy of these universal forces. We only assume what we know, we only think we see and understand- but the blinders and limitations remain. And one thing stands true, and it is that we know Nothing, we are in the Mercy of God- and with that knowledge we must go back, begin again and say to ourselves, ” Lord, what is your will for my life?

Why were these circumstances handed out to me, why was I born into this family? Why do I think the way I do? What do you want and plan for my life? I ask for courage that I may seek, and although I fall short of your grace, and only through Jesus Christ I am saved, I now have this eternal longing to follow you. To seek you, and though I will always be forever limited, and unable to grasp or comprehend who you are I want to surrender my life- to be guided, molded by you.

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For I am indeed a sheep in need of a Shepherd, for I do not know my way.  I do not understand the glory and perils of this earth, of this entire universe and for the longest time it was my ego, my blindness that made me believe I could do it, or that I am doing it with my own strength. It has always been you God, who holds all the doors and secrets to life, the greatest mysteries and that for the longest time of my life I have been a fool- you are indeed the one True Wisdom, that One Truth, The real source of Light, the Pure thought- the One who Created me, and the One who Owns my Soul. Whether it be on the earth, in the water and in the vast levels of heaven. 

In everything I do, may you be praised. From now on I will pray first and consult you and in Your Mercy, and only through your Will God can I achieve anything.

Let Your Will be Done in My Life, Oh Lord, In Jesus Christ alone.

 Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,  equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. – Hebrews 13:20-21

 

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.- Proverbs 3:5-6