It is very important to have a plan and a vision for your life. Afterall, you do not want to move about like one without any aim. While we propose our plans and visions, it is important to know that we do not control their manifestations. There is a popular cliché that “man proposes and God disposes.” However, if you do not propose, how can God dispose? Each day is an opportunity for us to get closer to our plans and visions. When we wake up each morning, we anticipate having a better day. We pray that our paths are fruitful. We commit our ways into the Lord and we trust the Lord to keep what we have entrusted into His hands. We may not consider this; but it is a big thing to fully trust in another for the sustenance and preservation of one’s life. To entrust God with your life, plans and visions, is a big thing! Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. (Psalms 143:8) One way to ensure a better relationship with the one we have entrusted our lives with is to have a daily moment spent with Him. Preferably, having a daily quiet time is an important step. The Psalmist discovered this and noted that: “Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life” (Psalms 143:8). When we make time to commune with God in the morning, it sets a tone for our day. We meditate on His words, we share our plans and visions with Him and we commit our day into His hands. No one is too mature to skip quiet time. In fact, Jesus, our perfect model, had a daily habit of spending time with the Father. Mark 1:35 records that “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.” Jesus started off His days with time spent with the Father. Although the whole city was looking for Jesus in the morning, He had a mission: “Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is why I have come” (Mark 1:38). Each morning as we come before the Lord, we should pray: “Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.” The Lord leads, He guides into all truth, He takes care of what is entrusted in His hands, He preserves etc. Each morning we spend with the Lord, we should anticipate that we will receive word of His unfailing love. He will communicate to us through His word, through people, through dreams and visions. We are living in uncommon times, we need the Lord to show us the way each morning. Our best decisions without the Lord’s guidance could be our worst decisions. We do not want to walk into places we have not been called to go. Everyone was looking for Jesus, but after His communion with the Father, His focus was to go to the nearby villages (Mark 1:35-38). Our declaration each day should be: “Lead me God, show me the way, guide my paths, and I will follow.”
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