Still Guessing...

Ever have one of those days where the lyrics to a song seem to just say it all? Well, I do and today is one of those days! One of my very favorite recording artists is Francesca Battistelli. Not only can I sing along with her quite comfortably but I love how her songs speak to every day life. Things like getting a speeding ticket, running late, have a few "dents in my fender". That's real life. And I love how she portrays it in song. So, here's my real life in her words...Keeping Me Guessing.

Coffee cup waking me up I've got to board a plane and fly away sometimes
I feel like I'm going the speed of light. Can't relax I'm moving too fast
I want to find the gold but I don't have a map. I wish that I could know what you've got in store for me.

I try and try to read your mind 'cause I forget that patience is a virtue.
You're teaching me to hold on tight.

'Cause I don't know how the story ends but I'll be alright 'cause You wrote it
I don't know where the highway bends but I'm doing just fine. 'Cause You're in control even when I don't know where my life's gonna go you're keeping me guessing.

So slow me down, show me around I want to see the world that I've been without
I am here and now the future is out of my hands.

I'm trusting you and how you move I won't forget that patience is a virtue.
You're teaching me to hold on tight. Seasons come, and seasons go, but you decide.

'Cause I don't know how the story ends but I'll be alright 'cause You wrote it
I don't know where the highway bends but I'm doing just fine. 'Cause You're in control even when I don't know where my life's gonna go you're keeping me guessing.

Sometimes I think I tend to forget that God has it all under control. He's writing my story, I just have to trust and obey. So many times I let circumstances dictate how I live out my story. I decide to stay stuck in places that aren't healthy for me instead of moving up and onward. I have to make an effort to trust that God is there. It doesn't come easy sometimes. When you are looking at an impossible situation, impossible dispair, impossible finances, impossible relationships, impossible grief...you have to remember WHO is writing your story...and He wants each "impossible" to have a VERY happy possible ending!

I read this verse this morning in my devo time and it just brings so much hope to my heart! It helps to know that our struggles are not in vain, doesn't it??

"Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us." Romans 5:1-5

Here's another one...

"Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain." 1 Corinthians 15:58-60

Wow! Praise God that he uses every trial and tribulation...and victory...for His glory. That everything we go through can build character and produce endurance. It's so much easier to be in a place of "guessing" what God has in store when you TRUST the one writing your story!

Are you trusting God to make a beautiful story out of your mess today?