Something to Meditate On...

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."
Jeremiah 29:11

"The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best."
-Oswald Chambers

So this is something I was thinking about all day today. It's funny that I have read My Utmost for His Highest every day for like 10 years at least now....but this morning the quote above struck me. I sort of laughed to myself that it didn't hit me what significance this has last year, or any other year for that matter. It seems I have always been so quick to settle for just "good" in my life (and sometimes for less than that!). Maybe I didn't have the faith before to believe that the Lord would actually bless me with something that would be considered "the best".

This past year and a half has taught me so much. God doesn't want us to just settle for "good". Whether that is settling for a person, or a place or a job or whatever. He wants the BEST for us!

Amy Carmichael said,
"And after all, is there anything in all the world to be compared with the joy of doing His will? I know of no joy like it."

And I couldn't agree more.

God is truly amazing, and His plan for our lives if we would just be obedient to Him is the BEST. Why do we always feel the need to be in control of everything?

"A man’s heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps."
-Proverbs 16:9

Let Him direct your steps. He knows what He is doing.
;)