With my birthday just around the corner, I've been reflecting on the last decade of my life. Ten years ago, I thought I'd become an adult... I got my driver's license. The world was mine to conquer. I had plans, big plans, and no one could tell me anything. Proverbs 19:20 states, "Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. It took me nearly an entire decade to realize that I couldn't make it in this world on my own knowledge, skills, or willpower. I had to go through a lot of hardships before I'd finally ask for advice and truly seek the Lord's will for my life rather than my own.
Proverbs 19 goes on in verse 21 to say, "Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails." I had my plans. Big plans. My life now is so far from what I'd wanted or planned that I can't even begin to list the differences. Yet through all of my mistakes, my wrong turns, my misguided paths over the past decade, the Lord brought me right where He wanted me to be.
I often wonder how I would have gotten here had I followed His path all along. Was this His "Plan B" for me or is this where I was always destined to end up? If I'd stayed true to His course, would I have gotten here sooner or would I have ended up somewhere else? I know the answers to none of these questions, but that's okay. It doesn't matter how I got here; it only matters that I'm here now.
When you turn your life over to Christ, who you were and where you've been no longer matter. You are given a fresh start, so rather than looking back at the past decade, join me in looking forward to this next one! Many are the plans in my heart, but I pray it will be the Lord's purpose that prevails.
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