God has a way of opening our hearts to things at different seasons of life, that we would have never thought of or dreamed about at different points. He has a way of leading that takes us around bends and turns to places we never imagined.
So many times, we set up walls to guard our hearts for fear of the unknown. Not knowing what the future holds, we make internal promises in our hearts like, "I will never do this, or I will do that, I will not be this, or I will not be that..." These promises are usually reactions to wounds, hurts, or injustices that we have seen in the past.
Looking ahead to the plans for our lives, we can make decisions based on avoiding possible outcomes, or try to control situations into developing a certain outcome. All human beings do these types of things at certain points in their lives (except Jesus of course). However, this is not how God intended us to be. This is not a heart-response of love and freedom.
God wants to open our hearts to trusting in His love and affection for us. When we truly open to Him without fears and "what if's," we may find internal desires that we never knew were there. Things that made us afraid, now become wonderful adventures. Things that we always held in derision, now become joys. Things that we thought would be a drudgery to us, now are vivid passions.
As we stare at God and learn who He is, He will open our hearts to become who He made us to be--and it may be a huge surprise to us.
There is no number to how many times I did something I thought I would hate, and found out that I loved it and was designed for that very thing. The only reason I stepped into those things in the first place is because I was walking with the Lord and He gently led me there.
Psalm 37:3-6 says, "Trust in the Lord, & do good. Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light and your justice as the noonday."
If we trust in the Lord, and commit our way to Him, He may bring forth desires that we never even knew were there, and He will take us into an amazing adventure where are hearts are free to love and enjoy the journey unhindered by fear, worry, or walls.
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