New Shoes & Trusting God

"Proverbs 3:5-6 (New International Version)

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;

6 in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight. [a]"

OK... posted the above on Facebook this AM after lots of praying this AM. Just kept coming to my mind. God say "in ALL things..." Then got on here to blog and without doing anything but logging in a window tha tisn't familiar pops up and that scriputre was pasted in the post window. I had planned to post it but guess someone else did too!

So life... "sometimes my life just don't make sense at all..." comes to mind (from a song called Hold Me Jesus... originally Rich Mullins I believe).

Running sprints 3-4 houses down this AM in the coolness after the storm was awesome. Good tunes, old tennis shoes... wait I just bought new shoes and but was thinking the old shoes would still be comfortable and not get wet or muddy from the rain so I put the old ones on. I KNOW the new shoes are way more comfortable and way more supportive, they are what my crazy hang ten no arch feet need. But still I decided the old shoes would be best for this situation. Wait I decided. I was wrong. Ouch... my toes were rubbing again and the really left me disappointed and after the life lesson stopped about 10-15 minutes to come in here and post.

So let me break it down for you...

Running = life
old shoes = doing things MY way
new shoes = fully relying on, committed to, seeking and 100% crazy in love with God
wet rainy AM sprints = life situations

Life lesson...
when I find myself running on a wet rainy AM (fill in any difficult or uncertain life situation)

and put on my old shoes (decided that what seems like it is comfortable and familiar STILl just blisters your toes, ouch!)

when my heart knows what I should do is put on my new shoes (aka fully rely on, trust, seek, obey and depend on God that He knows the plans He has for me)

because with my new shoes on I WILL soar like an eagle (even if in reality I don't even sprint that fast :)!!

God knows the why, He orchastrates the how, and all I can do is seek Him and "be here, now!"

I humbly ask, yet again, what if it changed your life?
And simply say yet again, He has changed mine!!