Giving God carte blanche
So my New Year prayers started out with me telling God what to do. I only half jest. As I prayed on my knees, pouring out my heart to Him, I wasn’t finding peace. I was feeling more turmoil than peace. Until... I finally blurted out, "Lord, I give You carte blanche with my life." Then, sweet release. His beautiful peace filled my soul. It seems counterintuitive to how we are wired in the natural. We all want some semblance of control over our lives. But when you belong to the Lord, He leaves some things seemingly unresolved in your life. I don't know all the reasons why He does this. I only know that all He does is done in love. Great love. Everlasting love. Holy love. Righteous love. Problem with us is that we've been sold a bill of goods as to what real love is. So when God, in His perfect love, allows certain trials to linger in our lives, our rational, worldly, fleshly minds cannot understand why He would allow such seemingly harmful things to continue