"If the Lord Wills It"

Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 08:40

This has been a busy, busy week.  We have a semi-annual camp out with our church every spring and fall.  Well, it was set for this weekend.  We have been hurridly preparing to camp.  We did a great deal of school on the front of the week and then took all day Thursday to bake and cook for meals and snacks for the camping.  The beginning of the week middle DD came down with fever at night but it left her during the day.  She felt better by Wednesday and Thursday, so we went ahead with plans.  At the same time, it rained (thank you Jesus for sending rain) all week even Thursday, but we were still all systems go because the forecast looked beautiful for the weekend.  However,  middle DD had fever on Thursday night.  DH said she did not need to be out in damp cold weather and be borderline sick.  So we did not go set up on Friday and now it looks like we will just be going for the day of fellowship on Sunday, Lord willing.  If the Lord wills it we will go early Sunday morning and have church and spend all day fellowshipping. 

This leads me to James 4:13-15

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit."  Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.  You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.  Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that." James 4:13-15

We can not say we are doing this or that.  We do not know what God has in store.  His plan is so much better than what we could ever plan.  I shutter to think about when we first got married and were making choices for our family.  We made some horrible mistakes because we were doing our will instead of His will.  I hope today that I am walking more in His will than mine. 

In conclusion to this statement, I will say that we are having a great weekend doing what God willed for us instead of what we willed.  It is so sweet how God shows us just what we need at the time we need to see it.

Blessings,

Trixi

God's will

Posted by schatzila on Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 03:34 - Link

Thanks for sharing and reminding me that I need to seek God's will for my day and not my own....that was a great post that I needed to read this afternoon...God willed it:)

Connie

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