The LORD directs our steps,
so why try to understand everything along the way?
—Proverbs 20:24 (NLT)
Heavenly Father,
When I don’t quite understand all that is going on, grant me the faith I need to trust You and the patience I need to wait and watch, as You unfold before me—according to Your perfect timing—Your plan to use all things to accomplish Your purposes.
Keep me in Your peace, by helping me to accept that the full impact of Your plans and purposes—for those things that happen both to me and all around me—is infinitely beyond my ability to fully comprehend, but still a part of Your plan.
Don’t allow my days to be so consumed by my own “need to understand” the reason behind why certain things happen, that I miss doing the next good and right thing, with the opportunity that You have placed immediately before me—a gracious and loving invitation to join in with what You are doing.
Keep me from the temptation to “make You in my image”—thinking I know best what You should do and how You should do it. Rather be the Lord of my life—as the Sovereign God that You are—in my heart of hearts.
When I don’t quite understand all that is going on, grant me the faith I need to trust You and the patience I need to wait and watch, as You unfold before me—according to Your perfect timing—Your plan to use all things to accomplish Your purposes.
In the name of Jesus, Amen.
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