Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Prior to moving to Florida in the late 1980s for a job, I asked God if this is what He wanted me to do. God answered my prayers with confirmation after confirmation. So trusting God, I moved from Oregon to Florida. Less than a three weeks after moving to Bradenton, the promised job, benefits, and home fell through. I was jobless and homeless.
BUT GOD was up to something good… Within a week of all of this happening, I found a better job and a really nice place to rent.
Looking back, I see how God directed me to Florida but it was not for what I thought but it was for something else. I ended up meeting my beautiful and wonderful wife and together we had two wonderful kids that have blessed us with two grandkids (with more in the future…I hope). I also ended having a wonderful career, great friends, and many many wonderful memories.
Know this, God’s thoughts and plans are much better than our thoughts and plans. He’s got this. Yield to Him. Trust Him. GOD IS UP TO SOMETHING GOOD.
-Ron-