Nick Taylor

Proverbs 3:5-6
http://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Proverbs+3%3A5-6

As I get older my experiences of life, myself, and others makes me aware of how unreliable, unexpected, and even random life can be. I can also feel anxious and less confident about all the decisions each day brings, whether they be large or small. I am therefore finding it extremely freeing and reassuring to let God make the decisions for me.
For years I think my method was: ‘This is what I plan to do today; God, please bless me as I do it’. It ended up in workaholism for me, and concern about living up to the expectations I imagined others had of me, or which I had of myself. And there was no end to what I could ‘plan to do today’!!
God has turned this on its head for me. Now I try to let my method be: ‘What are you doing today God? Show me how I can help you’. And I remember Jesus’ words in John 12 v.26 ‘Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am there will my servant be also’. The result is a sense of God going ahead with his plans, and me following after to fit in with them, and do whatever he has lined up.
When ‘interruptions’ come they’re seen as part of God’s plan so are not actually interruptions at all, but just something I hadn’t expected, and God will manage them effectively through me if I let him.
This brings back enjoyment and spontaneity into life, instead of frustration that the day did not work out ‘as I had planned’!!!!!