Only God's Outcome

“Only  God’s  Outcome”

“Make God the utmost delight and pleasure of your life, and He will provide for you what you desire the most. Give God the right to direct your life, and as you trust Him along the way you’ll find He pulled it off perfectly!”

Psalms 37:4-5

About a month ago I was decorating cookies for a worship night. I had 5 dozen cookies to decorate. I was frosting and sprinkling away.  In the process of carrying the spoon with red sprinkles over top of the white sprinkle container, my hand slipped! To my dismay, all the red sprinkles on the spoon spilled right into the middle of the white sprinkles! What a mess! What a waste! 

I tried my hardest to get all of the red out of it. I scooped and scooped, but with each scoop, it just filtered more into the white. I was mad at myself! I had taken a short cut and ended up with a big mess! Even a week later I was still filtering out the red sprinkles! 

As I looked at the tub of sprinkles with the red sprinkles mixed in, I felt a lesson being dropped into my heart:

When we try to do things in our timing, we hurry the process. That is when the mishaps and mistakes happen. Our hands grow weary and shaky. Messes get made! We try to clean it up, but to no avail! The mess still remains, we can't get it all out....on our own.

We are a hurry society. When we want something, we usually want it sooner than later. We tend to take short cuts to get things done. The worst part though is that we get into a hurry and we forget all about what God’s plans might be! Is it even in His plans? What does His timing look like? 

We try to do things in our own timing. We grow distracted, we grow tired and before we know it, our hand isn’t as steady. We spill things and we make a mess! That is when we try to hurry the process of getting the mess cleaned up and only make it worse! The only one with a steady enough hand to carry the spoon is God!  

Only God has the ability to clean up every speck of the mess we have made. We’ve made the mess trying to make our own way, in our own timing. In the process of us hurrying, we have actually delayed God’s timing and plans! Because now He has to take the time to go back and clean up the mess that we made! And who knows how long it will take to get the last speck of red sprinkles out of that tub!  

Ladies, let God’s will and plans be fulfilled. Let’s not delay His plans and timing any longer. It’s time to give God control. Believe me, I know it’s hard! There will be uncertainty, there will be heartbreak and questioning.  We all hold our desires, dreams and plans so close to our hearts. When we don’t seem them being fulfilled, it is so easy to take control of them to try and see them fulfilled in our own strength. The biggest fear I think we all have is that the plans & desires that we have been holding onto might not actually be what His plans and desires actually are for us. 

But none the less, His plans and desires are better than ours! So don’t hold back. Give Him the spoon. Better yet, let Him use His own! It’s a whole lot more powerful. Let’s get a front row seat to what God has for us! Until the last speck of “red sugar” is removed, let’s resolve to press in, to dig deeper, to desire more of Him!

Relax in His presence more! Listen to His voice more! Seek Him in the stillness and quiet more. Don’t hurry and you will see His plans being fulfilled in His timing! We don't know what the outcome will be or what it will look like. But what we do know, is that it will be beautiful, because it will be His outcome!

Music For You:

*I Give You My Heart by Hillsong