Letting God's plan work

Today, I was sitting at prayer meeting, and i started to fidget with my keychain. I took it out of my pocket, and as usual, it was a complete tangly mess (its actually my dog tag chain, so its meant to hang around a neck, not be in a wad).  Anyways, as I was detangling my chain, I just got the picture that the chain was God's plan, and the keys are his work. If you stick the chain in your pocket, itll get into a huge mess of knots and require a lot of work to make useful. However, if you keep it out, on your finger, or around your neck, it will stay straight and be ready to be used at all times. Likewise, if you don't always have God's plan and God's work in a place of priority in your life, and in your thoughts, you will get so tangled up that you won't be able to do God's work when he is ready for you to.

Things that have happened in the last 24 hours

The first awesome and encouraging thing in the Lord that happened, was I, out of my humanly curiousity, saught to understand my prayer language. I began by searching Google for words out of my prayers, but to no avail. Frankly i dont think i could spell them even if i knew them.

So instead, i searched for something i was sure would be in my prayers : the names of God. First page i clicked on, had a bunch of names, many of which i'd never heard before. The first one i didnt recognize, Kadesh/kadosh, means the holy one, or the Lord who sanctifies, was a word that had been repeated in my prayers. How radical is that!

The second beautiful thing God did was while I was lingering between the morning and noon prayer meetings. I was going for a walk, but i decided to drive up to a place i could overlook the whole valley from. I asked God what I should pray for, but the only thing that came into my mind was, this hill is covered with trash, go pick it up. So, reluctantly, I picked up all the nasty garbage on the hillside (every nasty thing you could think of was down there). After i had finished, i looked out, and the view was almost unadulterated beauty. Then, when i was putting the trash bags in my car to take away, I thanked God for the work he has been doing in my life, removing the garbage from my heart, making it beautiful again. Then God showed me, I could have done like any other person and just passed on, leaving the place to decay and become uglier. Thats not what happened though, I cleaned up the mess, making it beautiful again for all to see. God does the same work in my life. Its not the most pleasant task for God, but the fact is he could have passed me by to rot in filth. But instead he saw in me a beautiful thing, and cleaned up my life. Praise God! Object lessons for the win :P

Later today, an enormous temptation came upon me. My flesh desired strongly to give into the temptation, which it has on so many occasions before. I prayed to God to strengthen me. God didn't give me instant strength though, he allowed the temptation to continue, and allow my full weakness to show. Then he gave me a choice: Become weaker, or choose to accept the Strength of God, and bring me into more of his power. Gladly to say, I made the right choice. And God has made me stronger for it. Praise God!