Frustration seems to be the ongoing theme this week and I find that whenever I am faced with these, God undoubtedly will use them for a lesson for me and something for me to blog about that day providing I get home in enough time to share them with you and I don't forget.
Today's is about detours. Sometimes they do make us frustrated but I have noticed it's only when we are expecting to be somewhere and we have to be delayed or detoured and what we had planned has changed, temporarily.
There are traffic detours usually because of road construction and changes the city may have planned or accidents that will take longer than we would want, so we are provided with an opportunity to go around rather than wait it out.
Then there are the detours of our prayers or should I say delay responses. Its in choosing how we will handle them that determines our attitude in the coming moments. If you were like me, I used to get mad when faced with the construction or road issues and wonder why in today's technology can't they plan it better. Yet what was really going on was, you have inconvenienced me and I hadn't planned on it.
Now if you know me today, you will find I plan on always being early somewhere I am planning on going to avoid the extra stress I would normally be faced with if I am delayed or detoured. Now I see it as God's will in everything I do. Maybe it was God's will to detour me, and now I am seeing things I wouldn't have seen before had I not gone this way. Thank you God!
Or perhaps the delay I was facing was the result of the prayer of protection before heading out and had I been in a hurry, the accident I am detouring around may have been me. Thank you God for watching over me always.
We need to change our perspective when dealing with life when it doesn't go our way. We need to find something to be thankful for in it. The search may be challenging but there is always something there. Let's trying conquering our enemy today and thanking God for the detours he places in our path, either to slow us down, to get us to change our direction and return to His path, or to gently guide us in His loving care.
Ephesians 5:20 - "always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."
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