Thank You for the "no's" | Deeper | Post

I am thankful for the "no" I received.

I am thankful that when I prayed that God's will be done in my life,

It meant that I give God the authority to lay my will and desires aside.

I thank God that He overrides all my desires, and plans when He sees that they lead into deep waters.

I am thankful that I now see why God did not allow my will to succeed: I see the deep waters from a distance and I am thankful that I am not in them.

I am thankful that God sees my future, and is willing to let me feel little pain and disappointment today in order to protect me from myself; to enable me to step into the greater future, He has in store.

I am thankful that God knows each and every one of our desires, and guarantees that He has something great in store for us in line with our desires;

But that it may not happen in the time we think it should happen; but rather that it will be unveiled in a way and time much greater than ours.

I am thankful that when I pursued my will and prayed for Your will, Your will overruled.

I am thankful that within my will you gave me the wisdom to realise that I was hurting myself by trying to pursue my will.

I thank You that you called me out of my will.

I thank You for silent moments with You that allow me to hear your calm instructions guiding me;

telling me to let go and trust in Your greater will.

I thank You for the strength to let go even when I don't see the path ahead.

And I thank You for Your which I now get to live out.

More than anything else, I thank you for the painful "no".

Today I stand and look back in hindsight, to the realisation that I would have drowned in my will.