Life has a way of not turning out sometimes. Ever noticed that? Things just don’t always go as planned, no matter how disciplined you are at filling in the pages of your planner. God doesn’t always agree with the notes of our pen. We scratch down in ink what we ought to commit to the Lord in pencil.

The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.

Proverbs 16:9

The believer cannot escape His will, nor would we really want to if we pressed all things to their proper conclusion. There’s a humility, a maturity, a godliness that can only be acquired by time and pressing. We wriggle out from under everything that would change us, mold us into who we are supposed to become. So, the Lord, often, trumps our ink for His everlasting glory and this is our blessing, Him. He trumps our carefully calculated plans, however well-intentioned, to give us the greater gift of His presence. This is astounding grace.

Some of us are scraping through life at present, others of us are soaring… the sky seems to be no boundary. We will all live in both places given God’s gift of time. And we need to know….

Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

Psalm 30:5

There are the nights of life and the big bright always-coming dawns. But even when we aren’t in the daylight and the trials are dark and the world so very hard, remember even the darkness is not dark to (God); the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with (God). In Jesus, we always only ever children of the day. We are always steeped in light when the world and circumstance swirl crazy dark.

So, let us pray together about all sorts of things, always in the Holy Spirit, because sister in the night… your dawn is always coming. And sister in the dawn your night draws nigh; let us then be sober-minded for the purpose of prayer. The greatest war ever waged is the war over the hearts, minds, souls of all the people God made. The war is about us. The war is in us. And our God is our victory. Let’s stake it all on Him.