One day I was in my car driving to an unfamiliar destination. I looked at my phone and touched the screen to get a preview of the route I was on and my car was out of focus on the GPS screen. While using this app, I noticed there was a button in the lower left-hand side of my phone screen called re-center. I pressed the button on the app and immediately I was able to calibrate to my surroundings and proceeded to my destination.

This I thought to myself is a microcosm of our lives. oftentimes we find ourselves sidetracked, lost and going in the wrong direction with things that are insignificant to our destination and or destiny. I have learned, thank God it is not too late, that without a plan, vision or forethought to what you intend to accomplish with the few short days we have on this earth, we will wander aimlessly throughout life. Just as we use a GPS to help us get to one destination to another, vision is the GPS to getting our lives from a state of habitual daydreaming and present reality.

For most of us, we never have been exposed to re-centering our lives. We chase after whatever the latest trend is and we pursue it, even to the detriment of leaving our original intended purpose. We never take the time to discover our true purpose and destiny and the direction it takes to get there. We ask other people who if they were to be completely honest with you, they haven’t re-centered or discovered their own lives based on the vision God has given them. I don’t know about you, but I am ready to come to the intersection of Destiny Blvd and Opportunity Lane and make the correct turn according to the GPS for my life and be completely centered.

it is a worthwhile exercise to make sure that our lives are re-centered. We have to make sure we are on the route we should be traveling. We can’t look at another person course and determine that it is the one for us to travel on. Just like a plane of a particular airline may all look the same with their markings and paint job, they are traveling to different destinations. They each receive different coordinances to reach their destinations. If the pilot is off by just one degree, the plane will not reach its intended destination and at some point will have to recenter in order to correct the navigation mistake.

Let us take a hard look at what we are currently doing and the activities we are apart of and the people in our circles. Are these things constantly causing our internal GPS to say re-calibrating? Are we constantly hearing the GPS message” As soon as you can please make a legal U-Turn? Make just maybe we should stop, take note, and re-center

Maybe it is just me, but I have a difficult time not being in control. I like you have aspirations of a bright future and often times I find myself wanting to help God out, which is totally ridiculous. What I am learning is to trust His process. Sometimes in our daily lives, we can look at those around us and those in our peer groups and it seems as though they are growing at the speed of light. What I had to learn, and this might encourage you as well is that we all have different assignments and purposes that God intended when he created you and I. A.H. Strong states “When God wants to make an oak, he takes a hundred years, but when He wants to make a squash, he takes six months.” I am beginning to learn to trust, accept and embrace His process.

For most of us, God has us in the refiner’s process. refining involves removing impurities that remain after the smelting process. Just like the old gospel songs that say: Please be patient with me, God is not through with me yet. When God gets through with me I shall come forth as pure gold. We are often anxious and feel the demands chronological time, but what we must remember is that God is eternal and he does not operate within the confines of time. I honestly believe that for most of us we keep comparing ourselves to others and if we will be honest we doubt God’s ability to take care of us. Jeremiah 29:11 says “for I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

I am learning albeit slowly to enjoy life and take God at his word. God assures us that God also assures us that “for those who love God all things work together for good.” Romans 8:28. He will surely take care of you and I. God sees the bigger picture. He sees the purpose of every little detail in our lives. Whenever you start assuming or over-thinking details in your life, look to His promises. God tells us: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9

My friends, I am inviting you to take this courageous journey with me. I know that you are used to planning and orchestrating your day to day affairs and quite frankly maybe just maybe you are wearing yourself out. There is a time for everything. If God has called you to some endeavor and you are frustrated that it has not manifested, know that times of preparation and simmering are required before the vision can be achieved. Seldom does God call and manifest something at the same time. There is preparation. There is testing. There is relationship building between you and God that must take place. I believe that if we could ever get to a place where we let go and let God, we will be able to see on this side of heaven that losing control and allow God to be God was one of the best decisions we could have ever made