make some room

i've been getting QTs from OTL everyday. it's from the book "My Utmost for His Highest" and today's QT was titled "Leave Room for God." it was from Galatians 1:15. the author talked about how we need to make room for God to come in as He pleases. the author stated,

"No matter how well we may know God, the great lesson to learn is that He may break in at any minute. We tend to overlook this element of surprise, yet God never works in any other way. Suddenly— God meets our life "...when it pleased God..." [Gal. 1:15].

God comes into our lives and reveals things to us as He pleases [and He even takes away as He pleases]. just as He did to Paul, He does the same for us. if we don't leave room for God to govern our lives, then we miss the opportunity for God to show us something so wonderful. i think it's when we put 100% of all that we have in God and allowing God to use us to do all that we can in our own power -- that's when miraculous things happen. once we leave everything up to God, all the humanly possible things come so easily and so naturally. sometimes, we don't need to put in 100% of the things that we can do because God just takes care of it.

i know it's easier said than done. everyone at times struggle to put it into action, but as we discipline ourselves to "let go and let God," we automatically leave room for God to do His thing His way so that all we need to do is look for Him and at Him instead looking at where or when or how he comes in, just like the author said -- "Do not look for God to come in a particular way, but do look for Him. The way to make room for Him is to expect Him to come, but not in a certain way."

and i feel like this is where faith comes in, as well. the more we learn to trust God, our faith grows and becomes stronger, which then leads us to leave room for God to sit in the driver's seat. and when our faith grows, we are that much closer to Him and the peace, grace, and joy is so much more evident in our lives -- within our words and actions.

i pray that we can all grow and learn to trust God and let him take control over our lives. He is the one who planned every part of our lives. we don't have to worry about what the next step will be. because He is guiding us each and every way, all we have to do is say, "Lord, I give it all up to you." but that doesn't mean we should stop doing our part. it just means letting God take full control of it -- to be the boss, so that we, as the workers, can do our assigned work and follow in His directions.