It boggles my mind that I can survey the past and see how my choices have influenced and perhaps even steered how the Lord has cut in half, reversed, and even killed dreams that were not in line with His will. But what does that matter if those dreams were simply visions of what my own, ill-governed heart dreamt up?
Just recently, a friend (thanks, g!) reminded me that it's not happiness that the Lord promises us. But He so desires to give us His blessings. I often look with bewilderment upon myself when I choose all but what God wants for me, those things that He knows I need. My weak-faith-laced distrust of the only giver of good things does nothing but dispell the illusive hope I so desperately need.
Now therefore reflect carefully on the recent past, before one stone was laid on another in the Lord’s temple. From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty. I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,’ says the Lord. ‘Think carefully about the past: from today, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, to the day work on the temple of the Lord was resumed, think about it. The seed is still in the storehouse, isn’t it? And the vine, fig tree, pomegranate, and olive tree have not produced. Nevertheless, from today on I will bless you.’” Haggai 2:15-19
Okay head, talk to my heart. I want those blessings!
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