The Path of God's Best

God’s best. What keeps us from it?

Could it be fear? Fear of the unknown, fear of what might happen, or, even worse, what might not happen. We hold on so tightly to relationships, to positions, to jobs, to our future. All the while God has a great adventure awaiting, but oftentimes we miss it because we won’t let go.

Think about that one thing you’re holding onto. The thing that, if you’re honest, actually has a hold on you. I think for most of us, it’s our own plans: my major, my career goals, my timeline, the things that I want to do with my life.

We say we want God’s best for our lives. We say “Lord, You can have it all,” but really we are saying “You can have it all within reason.”

You can’t receive God’s best for your life if your hands are holding tight to this world. And when I say this world, I mean everything we’re comfortable with, everything we can see. We love our plans because we can picture them, they make sense, and they’re (somewhat) attainable in our own strength. But how opposite that is to the life God’s calling us to live.

I think if we really, truly believed Him, if we fully understood His heart for us, we wouldn’t doubt for a second that His ways are far beyond our own.

I want to paint a picture for you, a picture of a God and a Father, of a Papa and His immeasurable love for you… How He hung the stars, yet holds your heart… How He fashioned you from dust and breathed life into your bones. Can’t you see He longs to give you good things?

Then why do we settle? Maybe it’s because deep down, we’re afraid He can’t or won’t provide any better.

“Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh? So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? So also Abraham ‘believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness’.” Galatians 3: 3, 5-6

What would it look like to believe the way Abraham did? To not settle for what we can see but to truly believe. To hope in His promises despite how crazy it may seem. Noah built the ark before the flood, before the existence of rain. Joshua circled Jericho before the walls came crashing down.

It’s your faith combined with God’s power. That’s where the miracle waits.

As I walk with the Lord, He leads me places I never thought I’d go, and He allows things I never thought He’d allow. Through the mountains and valleys, I can say He is good. And I wouldn’t trade His plan for mine any day. Because I’ve lived in the shadow of His wings, and I’ve learned to walk in His goodness—despite the unknown, despite how much it doesn’t make sense.

In a way, I feel like He’s saying “That’s the point! You’re not supposed to understand. You’re not supposed to see it. My child, it’s called faith.”

So let’s open our hands and surrender our plans. Let’s believe for more, hope for more, and trust in the God of immeasurably and abundantly more—more than all we could ask or imagine. And watch and wait for the miracles to take place.