If you have been involved with Restore for more than a few months, you will know that we are well acquainted with interruptions. There have been moves, pandemics, and plans that don’t come to fruition because of things outside of our control. Even in your own life I’m sure you can think of hundreds of times when you thought, “I am in control of my life, and next I will go and do XYZ.” When we have all these master plans laid, out it becomes difficult to deviate. Then something happens that changes our plan, and instead of trusting the process we often choose to grip tighter, hold on longer, and fight for something that we know in our hearts wasn’t meant to be.
It is in times like this that we need to look to God and say I trust. I need to trust you. Now, more than ever I need you to light my path because I feel lost. Having something not work out the way you planned is hard, and it is a loss you must take the time to grieve. However, it is also an opportunity to do something different.
James tells us in chapter 4 starting in verse 13, “13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
When your plans get interrupted, feel the way it makes you feel, just don’t stop moving forward. We are called to trust the plans that God has for us and live the life to which we are called. It is a hard call, but when we learn to welcome the interruptions, we can find paths that we never thought possible.
Where has God called you to go, and what needs a little interruption?