God is the Engineer

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 Heavenly Father,

Time is a tool in Your hands, and You have the wisdom about time that is so far above and beyond any wisdom I could ever have.  I trust in You to show me the way to be more like Your Son, Jesus Christ.  Keep me from making wrong decisions.  Erase my pride and needs to engineer what happens next.  You are my Engineer, and You shall get all the glory. Grant me patience whenever I feel like I'm running out of time.  Help me to realize that by Your guidance I can make the most out of every moment so that i will honor You and have peace in my soul.

In Jesus' name I pray.  Amen

My job is not to get my will in Heaven; my job is to get God's will on earth.  People in Heaven are already doing God's will, and we are called to do the same here "on earth as it is in heaven."  Jesus says that I should aspire to do the will of His Father.  If that means bringing other Christians together for our refreshment, then i look forward to the day i'm able to do that.  For now, i've got to look forward to persecution being a Christian in a culture that glorifies sex without responsibility or relationship.  

One day while i was trying to engineer my destiny, riding the bus, on a cold wintry day, i saw that someone had carved "MATEO 6:33" in the ice and snow on the back of his truck.  I remember going home that day to check the verse in the Bible.  To seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness and these things will be added to me...yet those words didn't register, and I continued on my way to self-design my destiny.  Just this past Sunday, watching Your Move with Andy Stanley, that verse came up again.  This time, it registered.

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