Get out of your feelings!

If you have lived any length of time, you realize pretty early on that God’s plan and your plan doesn’t always line up. You can have this amazingly detailed vision of what your life will or should look like with a clear timeline, bullet points and highlighting; only to reach your first goal and run into a massive roadblock. It’s frustrating, disappointing and life-changing all at the same time. What do you do? Well, if you’re being honest, most of you would admit, like I did, that you get in your feelings. You start letting your emotions speak for you and your decision-making reflects what your heart and flesh want and not what God is saying. As I was preparing to chat with the ladies that I mentor last night, the Lord told me that it is all about perspective. How you choose to look at your life and what God is doing in and through it can determine how quickly you get to your destiny.

““My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” (Isaiah‬ ‭55:8-9‬ ‭NLT‬‬)

Isaiah 55:8-9 is a common scripture that church folk often use to help them feel better about things they don’t understand. But I realized last night that it is more than that. It’s not just permission to not understand because God is so much smarter than us. No, it’s an invitation to come up. It’s a call to not stay in your feelings but to elevate your thinking to what God is saying. It’s an instruction to look deeper and adjust your perspective accordingly. Think about it! What if the shifts and date changes and people moving was all for a higher purpose? What if you chose to look at all of the tears, the rejections and the time spent as lessons that moved you forward in the spirit? Perspective adjustment!

You see, Jeremiah 29:11 told us that the Lord KNOWS the plans that He has for us and they are plans for good and not disaster to give you a future and a hope. If you believe that, then you have to believe that what you feel like is working against you is actually working for your good. There is a reason for all of this, whatever your ”this” is. Trust me, I would love for my plan to work on my timeline and the way I laid it out. But God’s plan is better and higher and it takes into account all if the things that you don’t see. Perspective adjustment!

Don’t miss God because you are in your feelings! Don’t let your flesh cause you to miss an amazing opportunity to grow or a great lesson that you can use to help others. Instead, ask God to show you what you need to see and how to respond. Remember He sees from a higher vantage point and He knows what’s ahead.

Amen