I Want A New Daddy

Max Lucado tells about the time he and his wife took their oldest daughter Jenna, who was seven, to get her first bicycle. When they got to the store, three year old Andrea decided that she wanted a bicycle too. He says "I tried to reason with her, and told her that she couldn't reach the pedals, and wouldn't be able to ride it, and needed to wait a few years, to be able to enjoy it. Her response was loud enough for the whole store to hear: "If I can't have a new bike, then I want a new daddy!" 

David writes in Psalm 37:7 "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; Fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes." 

Too often we become impatient in the things we want to possess or accomplish. And if God doesn't provide us with what we want or need, in our way, and in our time, we step ahead of Him, and try to pursue those things on our own. Where does that lead us? It leads us down a path of disappointment, and dissatisfaction.

We need to stop buying into the lie that our first parents bought into:
"For God knows that in the day you eat from it (the tree of knowledge of good and evil) your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (Genesis 3:5)

We don't know what is good for us, as much as God does. We don't need to step ahead of our heavenly Father. He always cares always about our welfare.

It's time we place our lives completely in His hands, and trust Him in all things! GP

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