I'm getting pretty old, but I learned something this week. I am waiting on some pretty big news...life changing, big decisions kinda stuff. As life goes on around me, I am watching situations change. So I am playing in my mind with them. I just found out that a friend will not be moving to a new job as quickly as expected and another did not get a certification on his first try. "So," i wonder, "is God doing that so that I can bring them with me to a new job?" Or is God going to use them to make something else happen?

So I am praying about that and I feel like I get a pretty direct message. I need to stop trying to figure out what God is doing.

His leading wasn't harsh or rude, but direct. I need to spend less time trying to figure out what he is doing and spend more time on doing what he has told me to do.

First, when I need to know what I need to know, he will make that clear. Second, my proud, self-centered heart will always take that information and manipulate it to my greatest advantage. I am not a glass half-empty guy, I am a glass almost spilling over guy. Way too optimistic. I will take all the circumstances and drop them into a scenario that will be to my greatest advantage. So no matter what situation I see, I am thinking about me. With every turn the car takes, like a kid, I am thinking, "then Daddy must be taking me to that Baskin-Robbins".

But it's not about me, and it's not about then. It's about God and his glory, and it is about how I am to obey now, today. So let me lay aside my puny plans and and let myself be swept into the great current of God's plan.

Father, let me be a man of humble obedience. Let me first be a common laborer in the building of your temple. Let me work with the bricks and mortar that you have immediately at hand and be faithful. Let me trust that as I work, you will give me the next plan, new bricks and new co-workers in your time.