As I started my spring cleaning early, which I can’t explain because I’m not a spring cleaning kind of girl, I got the idea that I should buy a new shelf.
I looked and looked and bought something that I ended up returning because the quality was not good.
I determined that maybe, I didn’t need this particular item. If I organized just right, it would work with what I already had.
While I kept looking at the space and thinking it would be nice for something to be there, the expense just wasn’t worth justifying.
I put it out of my mind.
About a week later, somehow, the exact thing – actually better than I would have chosen, literally fell in my lap. It was a beautiful piece, and all it needed was a fresh coat of paint, which I coincidentally had almost a full can, in the ideal color. I decided to buy another can of paint as a just in case, and for another idea I’d gotten.
To be honest, I was so excited about how this thing had come together that I could hardly sleep as my mind whirled with ideas of what to do.
As I contemplated my good fortune, I got the sense that the Lord was asking me: ‘will you trust Me for what you desire?’
Just that morning, one of the verses I’d come across was Proverbs 3:5-6 ‘Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your path’.
As this thing literally fell in my lap, I kept answering, ‘yes, I will trust you’.
Would you believe the same verse came in another devotion the very next morning?
Friends, I am a witness that God does exceedingly above what we think, ask or imagine.
Will you join me and trust Him, even when life looks nothing like you expected?
Dear Heavenly Father, I’m so grateful that you continue to prove yourself trustworthy and that you know the desires of our hearts and you answer far better than our expectations.