A Funny Feeling
By His Sheep
As a kid, I was always asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. Through the years my answer would change. From a chef, to a restaurant owner, then a model, and lastly a civil rights attorney. I wanted nothing more than to become an attorney to defend those who rightly needed it, but this dream didn’t last. In my junior year of college I got the funny feeling that maybe I was meant to do something else. I followed it and ended up somewhere that I did not know was an option.
“We can make our own plans, but the Lord gives the right answer.”
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.”
The option to let God plan out your life. It was scary for me to trust what I thought was just a feeling, so I asked God to show me if this was from Him. That night I went to a service while at the church fall retreat, and I forgot everything else from the speaker’s message except him saying, ‘God’s justice is different from yours’. I knew that God was asking me to leave this goal behind and continue to follow Him down the path that I should take.
Thankfully, the Lord helped me to trust Him and lay it down. Years later I am so happy that I did! There were many more moments like that with the Lord and they will continue to happen. The moments when your back is against the wall, or when you are sideswiped by life and you have nothing else that you could do. These are the times to trust in God. The truth is I am not in control of this life, but if I trust in the one who is, I have a funny feeling that it will all work out.
