You Don’t Know Where It Will Lead

I have a really bad habit of not doing things when I can’t see the end.  I am a notorious planner.  To a fault.  I’m the guy who wants to know where we are going, when we are leaving, what time we will get there, etc.

This is good at times especially for goal setting, but it’s also bad because there are those things in life that when you decide to do it, you don’t really know where it will take you.

I am facing one of those areas right now in my life.  I am making steps towards starting something, but I can’t see the ending.  So yes it makes my OCD hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

I got breakfast with a really good friend of mine the other morning, and he reminded me of Proverbs 16:9  “We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps”.  Basically what that means to me is yes I have to make a choice, God can’t make that choice for me, and then I have to trust that as  I make that choice God is going to determine my steps.

And I have to realize that even if those steps take me to a different place than what I may think, I will still be stronger and know more than when I started.

Again, I am not ready to divulge what this new step is for me, but it will be forth-coming in the next couple months.