Our way or God's way?

The Bible is full of examples of people who planned their own way and then yielded to God and He did it better. One of those characters was Joseph in (Genesis 37-50). God saved Joseph's whole family in a way that he could have never imagined. As a young man, God showed Joseph in a dream that he would gain preeminence over his brothers. But Joseph had no idea at that time that the purpose was to save his entire family from famine. And I'm quite sure Joseph absolutely would never have imagined a path that would take him from thirteen horrible years of slavery and imprisonment to becoming Prime Minister of Egypt. When Joseph realized just how miraculously God used his brothers treachery to carry out a rescue plan for the entire family, he told his brothers in (Genesis 50:19-20) "And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive."
We could examine the lives of so many characters in the Bible and although they were flawed humans, when they decided to let God run their life HIS way, they discovered He does it better than they could. Is your life going the way you think it should? Do you wonder where God is in all the mess? If you are born again then He has not gone anywhere. When we begin to wonder where God is and why He is not doing our life our way then it's time to begin re-surrendering every area of our life to Him. Blessed is the person who allows God to run his or her life His way.
-Pastor Dennis McCoy