I didn't even know where to begin, I just sat with my bible closed in hand and began to pray... "God just show me what you have for me, I just need to hear from you."
As I started to skim through I found my favorite bible verse marked....
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight."
Every word of these verses rings truth. I can't tell you how many times I have just looked up at the sky and whispered I don't understand....
It's actually from this verse that I came up with the name of my blog "My Dots." About a month ago I had the opportunity to speak at a church in South Carolina and honestly I had no idea what to say. I was asked to give my testimony and how God had used me. I have always been someone who felt like I didn't really have a testimony because every testimony I had ever heard was about how God had changed someone. How that person had been addicted to drugs or had been an alcoholic or had been abused....none of those things have ever happened to me. So I really wasn't sure what I could say for people to get something out of the time we spent together and how I could relate to people. But, that's why it's a God thing...
It didn't take long for me to write 6 pages of notes for all I wanted to share. I shared the "Dots" in my life. I have had some amazing blessings in my life and in each of those moments God has molded me into the person I am today. From pageant days to family vacations every moment has played a part. But it's easy to look onto the fun and happy times. What if we look into the times that we got off the path God had planned for us or when really bad things happened in our lives. You see it's really easy to Trust in the Lord when everything is going good but what about when a family member passes away or when we look back on all the past and realize we didn't always make the right choices.
All those moments in our lives are our dots...and to us they look like a random mess but did you know that God can take a mess and make it into a message. If we will, in all our ways acknowledge him, not only will he direct our path but he will use the trials he has brought us through to help someone else. Not only did losing my grandfather this passed January change how I spend time with my family and make me appreciate my time with them so much more, but it allowed me to understand the hurt when a friend loses someone they love. Now I can offer words of encouragement from personal experience because I know that pain in their heart.
So do you always try to connect your own dots? I do...I always am trying to figure out God's plan and how A and B are going to match up and get me to C but what if in my story C comes before B..... If we will focus on God and what he is doing in our lives right now instead of focusing on figuring it all out he will lead us to that next step and the journey will be more amazing than we could have ever imagined.
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