Read the transcript from today's video devotional.
Today's Verse of the Day has a direct connection to a story I want to share with you about the route I normally take to work. Now don't check out yet, okay? This has a direct connection to Scripture. Maybe you're like me and you like rhythms. You like patterns. You like things that are predictable. For me, in the morning, I have one of three routes I can take to work, and there's one that has a beautiful scenic view with hills and the sunrise and trees. I just love it. It's one of my favorite routes.
One day I'm driving and I take the turn I would normally take to get on the road and it's blocked. They're doing construction. They have literally torn the road apart and I cannot get through it, and it ticked me off. Have you been there? Where what you planned on doing can't happen. If you tried forcing your way through it, you'd probably get hurt. If I drove my Honda through the construction site, I would become a part of the construction site.
God's Perspective
This moment is one that I think we each deal with in one way or another. We have plans. We have things that we are expecting to happen because we're used to them happening that way. Then we have to take a detour. Today's Verse of the Day actually talks about a different perspective. It speaks of God's perspective.
It comes out of Psalm chapter 33, verse 11. "But the LORD’s plans stand firm forever; His intentions can never be shaken."
My plans change. My intentions are shaken when I get a new piece of information that throws me off my groove. It frustrates me a little bit, but God is never shaken. His plans never change. That shows you some really intense perspective. Like if you were to look at things from God's point of view, you wouldn't see detours. You would see intentional plans, which is challenging to me. How often am I inconvenienced by what I believe is a detour in my life?
Trust God Through Detours
Like I said, if I were to drive my little Honda Fit through a construction site, it would fall apart very quickly. It's not meant to get through that and end on the other side. It would fall apart. Maybe if we try rushing through the things that we feel are detours, we would fall apart. It's God's grace that redirects us.
Think about this. I took a detour and I was irritated. But on the detour, the sun started rising over a different part of the countryside that I was not familiar with, and I saw fog begin to roll in and the sky turned into some shades of pink and red and yellow, almost like cotton candy. I got to drive in wonder at the Lord's beauty, and I forgot about the construction site.
Maybe we have to learn to trust God through our detours. His plans are always perfect. His ways are always good. They're higher than ours. He thinks more deeply than we do, and the inconveniences we go through are actually a part of a grander plan, one more beautiful than we could ever imagine.
Beauty on the Other Side
As an encouragement, it's not wrong to feel disrupted. It's not wrong to feel the things you feel because you've got expectations. But if we were to trust and surrender our expectations into what God has planned for us, we might see beauty on the other side of our detours.
