Intentional Author

Intentional Author

The last thing I wrote about was what having a posture of surrender looks like. Surrender is giving back to God what was His in the first place and trusting Him with the outcome. 

There are some things in life that are much easier to hand over to God than other things. When it comes to things we are really looking forward to or hoping for, it typically is so much harder to surrender those things to the Lord. We desire to be in control, to know how the story ends, to write it how we wish. Most of the time we’ve already planned out how life is going to go, so that when something happens that is different to what we planned, we blame God for messing up, or not getting the timing right. Truth is, it’s us and our desires that don’t always align with the will and the timing of the Lord. 

When we’re in a season of hope, hoping and waiting for something to happen, we get so excited and put so much trust in our plan that sometimes, it hinders us from seeing the Lord’s hand through it. We wonder if He is working at all, if He understands us, if He knows what we’re going through, and if He truly is working all things out for our good. 

I was at a coffee shop with a friend, and we were talking about prayer, and the power of writing prayers down. She said, (when you’re writing), “You can’t forget that you’re writing.” That hit home for me. In the same way, when we trust that the Lord is writing our story, that He is the Author of our steps, then we trust that He knows the story He’s writing in its entirety. We can trust that the Lord is writing our story and that He doesn't forget that He is writing it.

In one of his books, Nate Bramsen says, “In any love relationship, when love letters are exchanged, every detail is important ... .Was the letter scribbled quickly without passion?...Yes, we notice these things because it reveals the heart of the one who writes.” Our story is reflective of an intentional author, one who has a heart for His children, one who writes beautiful stories. When we reflect on the way that God has moved and worked throughout our lives, one thing that will remain true is that He doesn’t rush through the writing of our stories. Instead, He is intentional in every detail, through every chapter. 

        Ephesians 2:10 says, "We are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." God wrote your story before you were born, He formed you for such a time as this. God hasn't forgotten that He is writing your story. Even if you're in a season where it isn't clear how He is working, trust that He is not scribbling your story down just for the sake of writing something; instead, He is intentional in every detail that He writes and He is faithful to reveal Himself through your story.