What would you do if someone walked up and handed you an envelope with $1000.00 in cash? This has not happened to me or to anyone that I know of, but I had the thought this morning and thought that it would be a cool thing to think about.

Now think about it and be really honest. Don’t try to be spiritual just because you are reading a pastor’s blog.  Really think about it and try to figure out what you would do.  I do not know what the right or wrong answer is!  I think that the right answer for every person is probably different – depending on where God has you and where you have yourself.

I know that if I am being very honest – what I should do and what I would actually do are probably two very different things. And this got me to thinking about how much more work I need to do to make sure that my life is lining up with God’s will!  I hope it helps you to think about it and I encourage you to post your thoughts to help us all think through it!

“The only thing harder than waiting on God is wishing that you had!” I don’t know who said it, but they sure hit the nail on the head!  They say that hindsight is 20/20 and as I look back on my life, it is so easy for me to see how – so many times I cheated myself out of the big stuff of God because I could not or would not wait on Him to do His thing!

God has gifted us with amazing abilities and it is crazy what we can do in our own strength and power, but when you stop and think about how small what we can accomplish is compared to the awesome big stuff of God, then you know that you need to get out of His way and let the Creator and Sustainer work!

Take a moment today to think about what not waiting has cost you and let that serve as motivation to wait on God! Some people rush into a relationship – wait and make sure that it is the relationship that God has for you.  Some people just can’t wait to jump into a new job or business venture and before you know it you are busted, broke and beat up!  Some will walk right into a sin because it feels good for the moment and not even give one thought about what it is going to cost them or their family in the long run.

God has a plan! It’s God’s plan that you need to wait on!  Trust Him and He will unfold His plan into your life and you will be glad that He did!

God has a plan for your life and He wants you to know it! Most of us believe that God has a plan for our life or at least we hope that God has a plan for our life.  Most of us at some time or another have thought about it.  But the truth is:  It just all seems to hard and mysterious to try and figure out.  And often while we are trying to figure out and understand God’s plan, we have family and friends who are all to happy to share the two cents worth, which often just seems to muddy the waters!

Here is what you need to know about God’s plan for your life! He will never force His plan on you!  He will never tell you one thing and then change it all around – just to have an “I got cha!” moment.  God wants you to know His plan and He is walking step by step with you through this life to try and help you understand, accept and live according to His plan.  If you really want to know His plan – He will reveal it to you.

One of the first and great ways that God reveals His plan for our lives is through communication. God communicates with His children through prayer and His Word.  Make sure that you have carved some time out of your schedule today to pray, that is to talk with and listen to God.  And make sure that before you put your head on your pillow to go to sleep tonight that you have opened up your Bible and read about God and His faithfulness.  Take these steps and you will be on your way to discovering God’s plan for your life!