Friday, January 10, 2014

Dear God,

Joy comes when we follow your lead.  When we listen, trust, and take part in your will, joy follows.  It may be a hard thing to do.  It may cost us something.  We may lose something we love.  However, eventually, we will come to see the value of following you and that alone will bring joy.

Recently you asked me to do a hard thing.  You asked me to trust and go.  In doing so I had to surrender my fear and trust your way would bring comfort, help, insight, peace, and joy.  It did turn out to be a hard thing but all those feelings came to me including joy because in following you, there were other benefits I could not have imagined before doing that which you asked me to do.  Trusting you brings joy.

I know the sorrow that comes when I fail to follow.  When I do what I want to do and take no care in listening to you, I pay a great price.  I feel sadness and disgust in myself for being selfish, thoughtless, and uncaring.  Couple that with my loss of joy and I feel pretty bad.  Things don't turn out as well when I follow what I want without taking into account the resources of heaven.

Lead me, Lord;
lead me
to your will.
Let your plan
take precedence
over my own.
Open my eyes
to the truth
and the path
you want me
to take.
Show me
the way.
Guide me
into the future
so I
may bless you
and others
because following you
always inspires blessing.

Love, Andrea