Young people are always asking to learn God’s Plan for their lives. My usually unwelcome answer is that it is His Plan that we get to know and recognize Him.
There can be no following of the Lord until there is recognition of Him. This recognition results from the faithful and prayerful delving into His Word. It comes from being consistently with His Body. It comes from seeking Him in the private prayer life.
It is the Holy Spirit who reveals Jesus and it is also the Holy Spirit who reveals the hidden things.
His work in us is a process and was never intended to usher us into the next safe building block of this life. He is preparing us for eternity. He is making His own likeness in us, if we are available.
Lord, it seems like there are either so many choices or no choices at all. Either way, I
want to be completely yours. I ask that you do whatever is needed in me to make me easily moved by you. Change me to the extent that the ground under my feet is ground upon which you freely operate.
Even though it feels like I want to know more than just the next step, I am asking that you teach me to move after you one step at a time. I know the things that seem so important to me are often insignificant compared to what you have in store.
Oh Lord, teach me to follow you.