Trusting that God has a Plan

A lesson with a more relatable story than the past story.

This week I decided to post something that I feel is a little more relatable than last week’s post. There are lots of examples in my life that I could use for trusting that God has a plan for me, but I felt like it’d be nice to choose a possibly more relatable story this time.

One example in my life that comes to my mind has to do with degrees that I planned on getting. Chiropractic, early education, special education, massage therapy, and accounting have been degrees that I’ve considered getting. In the end, I ended up getting two certificates that I didn’t even know existed. I have a certificate in Modeling/Personal Development as well as a certificate in Biblical Studies. Those were much different routes than I ever expected to take.

The chiropractic route didn’t happen because of an argument I got into that made me realize that I wouldn’t get to spend much time with my future kids if I took that route. The early education route never finished because teachers kept losing my assignments and because I lost approximately 80 credits when trying to transfer over to a different college. The special education route ended because the classes were taking too long. I never started the massage therapy route because it was interrupted by the Biblical Studies route and the job that God has currently led me to. Accounting never started because the job that God led me to doesn’t give me the time to.

The route to getting a certificate in modeling started because one of my grandmas wanted to take me shopping for my 18th birthday and a lady who works for Barbizon was trying to find more people to get a certificate in modeling. The Biblical Studies route started because of my experiences coming across guys on drugs, drunk guys, complete strangers trying to talk me into going out with them, thieves, a couple serial killers, and my workplace kept forcing me to work early in the morning even though it kept triggering clusters of seizures. I needed to find a different job, but interestingly enough couldn’t find one in WA.

Sometimes I get curious why God led me to getting those. It can be hard sometimes for me to not know why due to how much I wish I did know why. There’s also a portion of me that feels like I’m responsible for finding that out. In any case scenario in life that doesn’t go as planned though, we just need to keep in mind that we can trust that God has a good plan for us. We can trust that God understands how everything will work out in the future, even if we don’t. It’s okay to have the desire to try and find it out on our own, but we are not expected to get stressed out over it. Life can often be hard to understand, but we can know that we have a trustworthy God that has the power to understand the future and to make our lives work together for both His good and for ours.

Proverbs 3: 5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.”