Dear Ones,
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and overflowed with gratitude. We enjoyed a relaxing day with games and sharing together and then went to Devin’s grandparent’s house for a wonderful feast. We are so full of good food and thankful hearts. Today we will spend some time with Paige and see her apartment etc and tomorrow we head home.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
God’s ways are above our ways, and we don’t always understand them, especially at the time. But even when we don’t comprehend what He is doing, we need to surrender our way for His, and that takes trust. Isaiah 55:8-9 says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” We need to ask ourselves do we believe that? Does He really have our best in mind? Do we dare trust our way to Him?

God isn’t someone we can talk Him into things and twist His arm to force Him to do our will. But He is so worthy of our trust for He is all-knowing, all-wise and sees the end from the beginning. We see such a small portion of the whole and dare we tell Him to do things our way! I’m sure we have all had times when we were young and our parents forbade us from doing certain things. We may have thought they were uncaring and even mean at the time, but later, we realize how they spared us from heartache later. How many times I have thanked the Lord for the breakups I had with guys before meeting Al, for I could have missed God’s best to be my husband.

We can pray however, with tenacity and persistence, but always with trust! God you know better than I do so I want your will! We can ask the Lord to help us accept when His will is different than our own or when He seems silent. At those times, it is helpful to spend time in quiet in His presence and give our situations or place the person we are concerned about before the Lord. Then accept whatever His answer is and surrender to Him, just like Jesus did in the garden of Gethsemane to His Father’s will that He would die for us. We place it all in the Lord’s hands in trustful surrender.

Challenge for today: When tempted to settle for your will over God’s, ask for grace to accept what God has for you. It is always best!!
Blessings on your weekend and prayers and love, Judy