Re-Calculating

The famous last words of every GPS ever spoken, just seconds before it was turned of in frustration by the driver who was certain they knew where they were going.

Except tor the occasion where you don't know where you are but still think the GPS can't be right in its re-routing (should I admit to that?) the unit also does manage to work around and through whatever "off the route" spot you've managed to find yourself.

If may take the route you'd expect if you know where you are going. It may on occasion take you a different route than you took last time. And in the process, you may be surprised to discover something you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

Much like God's sovereignty. Things may go along quite well with the direction you pray and hope to experience. God will change it on you, many times. And along the way, discoveries... marvelous and wonderful if we aren't too busy being frustrated about the route in the first place.

On this #missionsFriday, pray for missionaries, struggling with the process and the journey they are currently experiencing. For the circumstances that are causing frustration; that aren't going as well as they hoped and prayed; for the road of life that isn't all that smooth for the past number of miles and doesn't seem be getting better anytime soon... may there be a grace and peace that permeates their hearts and their minds. May God be the lifter of their heads, as they prepare, even this day, for the reassuring hand of God to be their strength and their confidence. Pray the Holy Spirit to bring and be a calming presence to the storm(s) of their circumstance. And pray they find joy, in the marvelous and wonderful discoveries along the way; that their frustration would try to keep them from experiencing.

God's Perfect Sovereignty. It can be trusted. With where we've been. With where we are going. For the place we find ourselves in today. Re-routed; for His glory. By His grace. For the cause of Jesus Christ.

-PNC

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