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The Will of God VS the will of me

September 29, 2011 at 12:36 pm (Uncategorized)

This last Tuesday my siblings who are home from college for a week, decided to stay the night at my older brothers apartment in San Antonio. My dad had said I might go if it wasn’t on Tuesday night, because I had classes that day and speech club on Wednesday. That turned out to be the only day that worked for them. I was a little upset and tried to get out of classes, but it didn’t work out.

How many times do we have something we want, and it just doesn’t work out? There are many examples in my life. But every time it doesn’t work out, I look back later and think “I’m sure glad that didn’t happen.” We find that God’s Will is best all over the Bible, and there is no questioning God knows what is BEST. But God seems to never know what we WANT. So we think. There is a funny saying that I always laugh at when my plans don’t work out “We plan, God laughs.” I don’t know how many times I’ve planned and Apol. party and it never actually worked out. “BUT GOD! We are learning about YOU! Don’t you want us to study Your Word?” Is what I would say. But somehow I always knew He laughed.

This time was no different. Tuesday evening, since no one was home, my mother, little brother and I weren’t doing to much. We had just finished The Incredibles when it started to rain really hard. I skipped outside and played in the thunder storm. Then Maddie called me and asked if she could walk over because “Her parents were making her get exercise” Sure enough I saw Maddie walking this way around 7:30 PM and AH! I thought I saw Mr. Clay with her! So I quickly changed out of my red dress up gown. (It never is good to wear those when your friends dad is coming over, or they might not let your friend come over again. ) When I opened the door though, there stood Maddie, but also Jesse and Arleah Talbbot! I was pretty excited and we chatted in our living room till Mr. Clay came and picked them up.

It made me think. Would I have been able to see them if I was in San Antonio? The answer, of course, was no.

How amazing is God’s Will? And I remind myself, even if it isn’t what we WANT, it is what we NEED.

THANK GOD WE DON’T ALWAYS GET WHAT WE WANT!