Last week we ended with this statement, “Why didn’t God just have me share His plan with His bride who allowed fear and her plan choose her plan over what He’d planned?” Yes, I believe if she saw the plan, if I revealed all the details I had drafted, she’d excitedly let go of her own plan and embrace His!
Yet, we see this is not the way God works. Most of you have probably answered “Why?” when He reminded you of Hebrews 11:1, Now “faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Maybe He also reminded you of “without faith it is impossible to please God . . .” Hebrews 11:6.
What me must never forget is that our HH is such a loving Gentleman that He never wants us to live above our level of spiritual maturity. He knows each of us, as women, need to feel safe and protected, entirely secure knowing we have a Husband who is gently guiding us, providing a safe haven. So He will not push us out on a limb where we will feel unsafe. Instead, He will wait until we are ready to shimmy out onto the limb on our own because we’re excited to see the world from this amazing vantage point.
Today, I’d encourage you to nuzzle into your HH a bit more, talk to Him more about your plans, then listen and open your heart to hearing more to His plans. Ask Him to remind you about things He’s done in the past in order to strengthen your faith in His future for you. The more you do this, the more you’ll live happily in a state of waiting and the unknown, which is what we will discuss next week.
Unleashing the TRUTH
Thank you I truly needed this lesson today. I wish there was an option to bookmark or add certain lessons to a favorite tab? This truly is a short one but a special gem to me right now. I’ve been fretting and worrying that I am doing everything wrong and I know that isn’t how He wants me to be.
Hebrews 11:1: Now “faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Reading this verse in today’s LL is such a confirmation because this is the verse my Beloved Husband gave me this week.
At the beginning of my journey, and after I lost everything, I used to get anxiety attacks about my future and my children’s future. But every time my Beloved comforted me with this verse: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2029%3A11-13&version=NIV;NASB;NKJV;NLV
In time these anxiety attacks went away as I grew in my relationship with my Heavenly Husband. “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20John%204%3A18&version=NIV;NASB;NKJV;NLV
Sometimes I do wonder what His plans are for my children and me, that He will show me a glimpse of the picture He is busy working on, but then He assures me that it is a beautiful picture and that I need to wait patiently for His appointed time to reveal it. I need to wait to mature spiritually, to draw closer to Him and to be still and enjoy the waiting season with Him.
https://loveatlast.org/fc/poverty-mentality/chapter-9-gods-waiting-room/
We really have a Husband gently guiding us. I will never forget when my Husband gave me this promise years ago when I got divorce:
“For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.” I54:5 ( https://biblehub.com/isaiah/54-5.htm )
And I first understood it when I joined RMI, so my Darling Husband was busy spirituality maturing me all these years, because He just knows best!
This Living Lesson reminds me of this past week, Friday morning when I was busy talking (because I had so much in my mind, that I have to admit I replayed it over and over) and my Darling quieted me and said He too wants to talk to me and He said lovingly to me that He doesn’t want me to replay concerns and worries over and over in my mind, because it is time I can spend with Him.
He is just the Best because with this Living Lesson He is encouraging me to nuzzle more into Him and to talk about my plans and then to listen to His plans.
“Without faith we cannot please God” Heb 11:6 Faith is something that He has been re-teaching me, it is about trusting in Him and in His plans for me with and without fear nor doubt.
I have always been a very thoughtful person and I have to find 4, 5, and even 6 sides to everything hehe, it generates fear in me of what could happen, letting go of everything in his hands is the best thing I have been able to learn, because now, I let go of every problem, test, desire, need in His hands, it has been the most difficult for me.
Someone who believes that she has always had control of her life, until I no longer had it, giving him everything and trusting with my eyes closed, it was a long process but He used it to strengthen my faith and today I can say that thanks to my trust in Him I can live in peace, knowing that I have the best Husband and Father of my son by my side, and that everything that He allows is in time for my good.