Anne with an E

What if your silence saved someone? Have you ever thought that keeping your opinions to yourself or between you and God alone might accomplish two things? It might help you {me} see that maybe I, we, you can't possible see all that needs to be seen to solve a certain issue and it might help him, them, her, it become what God intended with our finger prints contaminating it. Just what I've been thinking about lately.

I have been SO wrong in the past about my opinions and not always kept said opinions to myself. I started asking God to change my heart about a certain person in my life and He did.

Shocked and arrogant to suppose............ because doesn't God always say "yes" to what is good and right? And isn't it good and right to choose to see another through the same lenses He uses? Well, I did and I kept on praying and asking, occasionally jumping the gun and applying my hopes to a single ray of light.

I know it's tough to think about me "jumping the gun" but hey, we'll get to that another day. ;-}

Recently God has been showing this heart how very narrow it's vision is and how very wrong I can be about things, people, situations and yes, even what God wants from me.

There's a new name written down in Glory and it's not mine. I wish I could claim that it was due in part to me but in all actuality it was all due to God. NOTHING man does can stop God's plans However we sure can muddy the water and delay progress with our resistance, insistence on having it "our way" etc...... God will do what He has planned to do regardless of what I do or don't do. What does this mean?

Well, we think that some verses in scripture are only meant for certain things and lately God has been showing me that His Works are not dependent on mine and my Works do little to hasten His progress except that in my Awe of Him grows every time I see HIS hand and know it was not guided by me but He allowed me to see what He's doing and shows me that my righteous works are not worth as much to him as my willing heart.

Willing to listen, to keep my mouth shut, to keep my head bowed and my heart open to what HE wants, not what I want. Believe me when I say I think what I want lines right up with His desires most of the time. That's how messed up my thinking can be. Just because it's good and right doesn't make it good and right and in HIS time.

IT doesn't make my desires necessarily wrong unless I happen to think my timing and opinion is better than God's. I am not God and pretending should be left to children. We should be fully following His shadow and not seeking to make a shadow for Him. How arrogant is that? well, this heart is beginning to realize that it's pretty arrogant. God is God and Julie is not. That's it, that's all I gotta say. Yes, I should be blogging but I'm not. Happy Monday. ;-}