Living a life that Matters

I’ve spent most of my life trusting my own intuition. I’ve always been a street smarts guy more than a book smarts type of a guy. I’m good at figuring things out and using my hands. I wasn’t much of a reader most of my life until the past few years. Even though now I read like crazy. The funny thing is that I have a degree in the medical field which required a ton of reading and studying. Believe me, it wasn’t easy for me. Flashcards were a big part of college for me. But a big part of what I know today was due to trial and error. I made a lot of mistakes in life. I’ve learned so much from those mistakes.
I bring up this thing about intuition because our culture is big on telling us to follow our intuition. They tell us to go with our gut feeling. Maybe sometimes that can get you by. But how often are we right? Then I get to think about God’s will and how we are to trust that He knows what is right or wrong for us. Add the way we find that out is not always the way we do go about doing it. Of course there is a lesson to be learned along the way. Its how He grows us and molds us.
This has always been the hardest part for me in my walk. Trusting God knows what is best.Its not that I want to follow my own way, but at times I just want to go the way that makes sense to me. I do get a little over-analytical at times. I love to ponder and think things over. I want to make sure that I made the right decision. But the more and more I grow stronger in my faith, I see that my way hasn’t always been the best decision.. even though I was sure I made the right decision. I wouldn’t be where I am today if I hadn’t been faithful and followed God’s way a couple of years. Its the only way I can descibe how God has used me these past couple of years.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:8-9 (NASB)