Let God Do His Thing

“In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:6 NKJV

People who like to plan every detail, and every step in the process have a weakness in trying to control the entire outcome without leaving room for change. This is why I have issues with some of the goal-setting advice we hear. They’d say, “Set a goal and let absolutely nothing influence the plans you’ve made”. And I’m like, “Who says you know it all?”

I used to be this way until I realised that half of the time, my plans on paper didn’t go as planned. I always had to tweak at specific points. That’s when I understood the importance of flexibility as we set our goals.

Sometimes I try to be rigid and control the outcome because of my personality, but God intentionally likes to shuffle the cards from time to time to keep me alert and help me realise that I don’t know it all. Sometimes, when I achieve the first goal and see just how different the process was from what I initially wrote down, I would try to reverse-engineer it so I could replicate it. Then He comes again to prove a point, making the second outcome different. Sighs.

We have our dreams and aspirations. We know who we want to be in the future and have an idea of how to get there. But not knowing all the details of “how” and “when” is what makes us depend on God to lead the way. We make our plans and get started on them but must allow time and chance to adjust where necessary.

I’ve fallen into the trap of deciding not to plan because it’ll get influenced or thrown out the window. But that has always been a bad idea because it leads me down a spiral of uncertainty, negativity, and constant feelings of depression. Not a good way to live. Instead, making your goal plain and seeing how God moves things around gives you a separate set of feelings – certainty and trust.

It’s better to make a solid plan, get the details right, take the first step to achieving the goal and when the plan gets influenced, go back to the drawing board, and adjust. We may not know how or when, but He’s working in our favour.