GOD SENSE

Here you are. This is the very moment you have been waiting for...all of the scores have been added and every total has been tallied. You know you have won. The numbers are in your favor, but the game was apparently too close to call. The "powers that be" are deliberating, and the results are just a moment away. You know in your heart the way it will turn out.

Suddenly, to your utter shock and dismay, the verdict reveals the opposite of what you know was meant to happen. You lost it all. You didn't get the dream job. The promotion you deserved was given to a less qualified co-worker. The dice finally landed, the judge has ruled, and the headline of today's paper reads: "The nice guy finishes last...again."

The only sense you can make in these heartbreaking and dream-shaking situations is that it makes NO SENSE. The words bombarding your mind and rolling across your angry lips are, "This just doesn't add up. There's no way it can be right..."

In a world tainted with pain, destruction, ugliness, and heartache, the last thing we need is to be nailed by another of life's bitter stings. It seems no matter how hard we struggle, claw, climb, and crawl, we feel we can never quite get to the top of our hill. We are realizing it's made of quicksand. Without fail, the short end of the stick is ours yet again.

But, what if some of life's situations just aren't meant to "work in your favor?" What if you weren't meant to get that particular job, that promotion, that significant other? What if God's plan for you is different? Bigger? Is it possible He wants to keep you flexible and agile in your mindset, your trust, hope, and faith? Is that why He's allowing you these opportunities to EXERCISE these areas of life? Maybe He wants to free you up for something so much better and greater and higher than anything you've ever seen or known.

I think when it seems all of life's chips are down and we're at our very end, God is the closest to revealing His true, magnificent plans for us. The only thing that makes sense when life makes no sense, is that it must make GOD SENSE. You know He's really up to something divine when 2 + 2 doesn’t equal 4. He must be getting ready to bless us, to change our circumstances, to rearrange our lives, and to draw us into Him even closer...

How many times have we heard that God works in mysterious ways? Yet when it's time to put that on and apply it to our own intimate lives, it's as fun to hear as nails on a chalkboard and comfy to wear as our itchiest wool sweater. But if we can get past all of that to realize its deep meaning, we can see that He truly does work in mystifying ways and His ways, plans, and systems are much higher than ours. His ways are not our ways...they are so much better!

So as we find ourselves in a situation where the score has been added and we've won the game on paper, yet we're sitting there with the "2nd Place" trophy, let's look upon it with the understanding that when the only sense a situation makes is that it makes no sense, somehow it must make GOD SENSE...He must be up to something so much greater. The best part is that it's totally up to Him to work out all of the details; we've done all we can do and have come to the end of ourselves. He loves that! Our only job now is to stay on-board and hang on tight for the ride. This, my friend, is the ride of our lives...

“Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.” Isaiah 64:4 (NIV)

Love and grace to you,
Katie Marie :)