I can remember eight years ago when my husband was starting a new career. We had been married for a little over a year. We had purchased our new home. I was in my third year of college and making a decent amount of income as an intern. We were right on track in the five-year plan we he had made. I remember like it was yesterday, riding in our blue station wagon and looking at him as he told me, “We just need to be sure you don’t get pregnant.” I was in total agreement.
In the days to come the Lord tried to prepare us for what was His plan. My husband was approached by a man who told him that the Lord wanted him to know that he was going to have a son. He did not give it much thought at the time. In weeks to come, one of the women at church handed me her infant son to hold and at that very moment a light fell on me from the sun shinning through a window near by. I gave it little thought. We went out to eat later and found ourselves sitting next to a table of women in deep conversation over the pregnancy of the one woman sitting directly behind me. I tried to shake it all off.
That month all of our plans changed. Two pretty pink lines appeared where there should have been one. I showed my husband who to my surprise cried tears of joy. Nine months later we had our first son. That was eight years and five children ago. Last Thursday, I held our fifth child in my arms for the very first time. My heart still floods with pure awe when I look at her. My life is unbelievable to me. I never would have imagined being a mother of five. I definitely had not planned it, but I am so grateful that the Lord did.
Over the years the Lord has slowly turned my heart to His plans. I have many times resisted his leading by trying to stick to my own plans. I have found that our plans matter but in the end it is the Lord’s plan that matters most. We must be willing to surrender our plans for His if we want to achieve the full blessings He has planned for us.
Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
- Proverbs 9:21
