The Best Laid Plans...
Proverbs 16:9: "In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps."
This is so hard for some people to understand in this world of ours today. I have had many people ask me how did I know what to do. How do I know if it is my 'will' or God's "Will". I have not always known in the past. But now that I am older, it has become a lot easier. People ask me how do I know when it is, "G_d" speaking? I have learned, if you know His Word, you will know when He is talking to you. I don't mean, just know scriptures and verses. I mean Know Him. Who He is and how He operates. I will tell them for example, if someone said to me, "G_d told me to divorce my husband and marry another man" (it has been said and done). I would tell them that was not G_d, that was their own desires (we have them you know and they are not always good). He does not operate that way. I have had people tell me things that they say G_d had told them I should do. I tell them, "until G_d tells me, it ain't so" (don't get crazy about the grammer). G_d does not keep us in the dark about what he wants for us or wants us to do.
I have always had plans and goals, sometimes things goes according to my plans and sometimes they don't. People don't quite understand that when things don't go according to my plans, that I am not upset. I am not upset because I know G_d knows better than me. If things don't go the way I planned them, I know there is a better plan than mine out there waiting for me.
Minnie Patmon-McLaurin
This is so hard for some people to understand in this world of ours today. I have had many people ask me how did I know what to do. How do I know if it is my 'will' or God's "Will". I have not always known in the past. But now that I am older, it has become a lot easier. People ask me how do I know when it is, "G_d" speaking? I have learned, if you know His Word, you will know when He is talking to you. I don't mean, just know scriptures and verses. I mean Know Him. Who He is and how He operates. I will tell them for example, if someone said to me, "G_d told me to divorce my husband and marry another man" (it has been said and done). I would tell them that was not G_d, that was their own desires (we have them you know and they are not always good). He does not operate that way. I have had people tell me things that they say G_d had told them I should do. I tell them, "until G_d tells me, it ain't so" (don't get crazy about the grammer). G_d does not keep us in the dark about what he wants for us or wants us to do.
I have always had plans and goals, sometimes things goes according to my plans and sometimes they don't. People don't quite understand that when things don't go according to my plans, that I am not upset. I am not upset because I know G_d knows better than me. If things don't go the way I planned them, I know there is a better plan than mine out there waiting for me.
Minnie Patmon-McLaurin
posted by Dr. Minnie at 8:02 PM
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