Why Plan for Your Future?

         It can leave you worrying so much and that worry can run your life. I use to have my life so planned out, it wasn't funny but here recently I am learning that when you don't plan it out, that is the best thing that could happen in your life. God has really been working on me about having Peace with His Plan and not worrying about anything. I know that was the theme this year as I look back on it or at least one of the theme words. PEACE. He made that clear when He was getting me ready for this weekend at church and for this advent week. I had a moment at my job when I discovered that everything was just perfect and I was exactly where I was suppose to be in life right now.
          While my co-workers were talking about their plans for their lives, I was just looking out the door thinking "Why plan for your future? Nothing will happen the way you want it to or at least that is how I look at it." Planning for the future is a waste of time because everything you plan for won't come about but if you believe in God, better things will come about then you ever planned. Some of the things my co-workers were talking about were things like wanting to adopt and how that has always her plan, talking about how to treat their siblings' children in the future, and so on and so forth. I just looked out into the night sky and felt a big wave of Peace come over my life. For once, I finally really feel like I am where I am suppose to be.
           I feel like I am ready to settle down and just enjoy what God has to bring to my life while walking beside Him and getting to know Him more and more. Isn't that what He wants anyways? I feel like I have two things the way that they were meant to be. Now how to my next two things but with that Peace of God and how He wants to bring those things about in my life. I'm not really stressing or worrying over them. I'm trying to step out and do new things hoping maybe this is what God has planned for me on the path since my old ways and plans didn't work so well. I can tell you know where I am today was not where I thought I would be 10 years ago. The people I have in my life now, I am thankful for but never thought would be in my life.
            When you have Peace, you can just, hopefully, be yourself and people will like you for that. Things might seem a little strange at first but you will get use to them. I love where God is leading me right now. Even though, I am moving on to a better job that can support me, I might be able to see some of my children every weekend or every so often depending on what I decide to do in that situation there. Still looking for Peace in that one because that one is hard in so many ways but I could see God working in strange ways there too with more then just one thing.
           I like what my Pastor said last night and it is was, "Disputations is God's best for you life". As I look back at my life, my planned life, those times of disputations were the best for my life. I mean look where I am now and it is all because I went to College of the Ozarks instead of some place like MSU in Springfield like I first planned to. I am getting the job I have been wanting because of the disputations on that path. God gives us disputations to get us ready for the thing He has planned for us or to get us back on track or both.
          This past month I have felt so fearful of things and even worried but you know what: Joesph was too when the angel came to him about Mary. He just wanted to quit the marriage until Jesus was born. He didn't know what to do with the situation He was in now but God did and He used it for the world's best. That one disputation put the world on their knees. Some people might ask how do we get real, lasting Peace. Here is how: "That kind of Peace comes from God's promises and in His Presence." I wish I had known that when I was struggling with anxiety. That would have been a prefect saying to have in the back of my mind to pull out at any time.
          All this to say that: God's Peace is a wonderful thing to have in your life. It is a wonderful thing to have for now and over your future. Stop being so anxious about your future to where you can't enjoy the moments you have now. Let God's Peace surround you and bless you with moments you will never forget. That is how I look at it right now.