Regret

We all have regrets. Don't even play like you don't.

This post kind of just fell into place in the past couple of days. It was just solidified by a post on Facebook that said "Life is like photography. It develops from all the negatives." How true is that?! But are they really negatives if we get something glorious out of it?

In Lifegroup (yes...another shout out!) we talked about how sometimes we can be given a beautiful gift of God and mistake it for a curse. How often do we find ourselves in a position that we never thought we would be in? And how often do we chock it up to things we have done wrong (aka: karma) or bad timing or something else ridiculous? Answer: a lot more than we should.

We have all heard the saying "everything happens for a reason." But we really only pull it out when we don't have any other answer for somebody we are having a hard time empathizing with. But, I mean HELLLOOOOOOO everything DOES happen for a reason!

The reason you are where you are now is because you are an anointed and active part of God's redemptive plan! Why do we make all these plans for our lives without consulting the Almighty first? Isn't that kind of silly? One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is that Psalms says "ask and the desires of your heart will be given to you," right? Funny thing, when we start praying and staying in the Word His desires BECOME our desires because all we desire is to do and to be where He desires us to be!

The decisions you make now (or in retrospect) may have seemed like the biggest deal in the world and that if you didn't make the right choice the world may very well stop revolving because you didn't say the right thing, or you did what you knew was wrong, or you made your decision to go to college based on what was easiest and most convenient.

But does it really matter in the grand scheme of things? Why do we put so much time and effort into making such magnanimous decisions when all we have to do is "bloom where you're planted" so to speak.

News Flash: You're going to end up where God wants you no matter what. So chill out and just talk it out with your Abba Father! He always knows what to say.

So if you aren't where you thought you'd be, don't sweat it! It means that God has a bigger, better plan for you than you could have planned for yourself!