The Toboggan of Destiny

As this Christmas season rapidly (a little too rapidly if you ask me) approaches I think about how different my life is now and the shift that is and has taken place. This time last year I had just started hanging out with this guy names Isaiah who was my friend Fabian’s “brother”, my grandmother had been staying with us for 1 of her 4 week visit, I was singing with the Prayer School team and life was just plain good. Fast forward a year and I am traveling all over the country with the crusade team, having opportunities to do things I only ever dreamed of, madly in love with the man I have prayed for my entire life, and almost exactly 100 days from today I will be a Mrs. So Exciting!

Life is unpredictable, circumstances come and go and change like the wind, but the Lord and His promises and the things He spoke to your heart will endure. It was so easy to give up hope when things didn’t go as I planned. But this thing is true, the WORD got me though. My life has been full of ups and downs and great triumphs and disappointments, however, when I look back over my life I see a life seasoned with the salt of experience and the pepper of growth and am happy to see the woman I have become because of the grace of God. He has supernaturally made a way to bring those things He spoke to my heart in the past into fruition. He is the reason I have made it and remained unscathed by the bumps and hurdles and heartbreaks that He has helped me to overcome. With God, truly all things are possible. I think back on my life and the things that God has showed me and spoken to my heart, whether through dreams/visions, prophecies or just an inward witness from private prayer times, and I am truly amazed at His uncanny ability to direct you right where you need to be and when if you would just listen.

I remember being 7 years old or so and my parents were youth pastors at the time. They took their youth group and our family up to Lake Placid during winter. Although I experienced frost bite for the first and only time in my life, it was one of the most fun things I have ever done in my life. We went to this toboggan slope place. Basically it’s a massive ice slope that is very very steep and extremely long and shoots you out onto a giant frozen Lake Placid. You sit on this little wooden plank essentially with a hook in the front to hold onto, and go flying down this massive ice hill. God’s grace and ability on the inside of you is like a toboggan slope. It is crazy and scary and the most fun thing you have ever done and shoots you right out into your destiny. Trust in the fact that you will get to your destination with your hair blown back like you were just going mach 80 down an ice slope, heart beating so hard you can feel it through your coat and gloved hand, laughing hysterically and spinning around on your ultimate destination, His dreams and aspirations for you. All you have to do is hook yourself in for the ride and push off. Watch what kind of ride and where God takes you.

Life is scary and fun, but God, His plans and purposes for you are greater than anything you could ever think, dream or even imagine. Enjoy the ride. Trust God enough to know that He has what’s best for you at the very top of His list, He knows you better than you know yourself and that what He is bringing you to will be awesome.

Don’t get bitter with life. Get better knowing that God is in control.