“God is often working behind the scenes of your life, orchestrating His destiny for you.”

A thought by Steven Furtick, (2012-09-04) from his book, Greater: Dream Bigger. Start Smaller. Ignite God's Vision for Your Life. (p. 32). The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

He then says, “Even though you don’t have a clue what He’s up to. Just because you haven’t heard God call your name or tell you specifically what to do with your life doesn’t mean He’s not conspiring great things for you. I guess you could say God likes to sneak up on you.”

Over in the OT Elijah the prophet was getting old and God had already picked his replacement out. Elijah knew who it was but Elisha the replacement didn’t. Go over to 1 Kings 19 and read the story.

As I face my life today I can see how this was happening for me. Back five years ago I retired from my fulltime job as a Pastor. Margaret and I moved to Long Island, New York to help our son in building a great church. That was our plan but it wasn’t God’s plan. He was working something else out in my life.

In my last year or so before I retired I had started writing a blog. Maybe once a week I would write something but it wasn’t a fulltime thing. But when I retired I started getting more serious about writing. Now the blog I was doing at the time was a blog of all the sermons that I had preached over the years broken into smaller sections. It was a good place to start but it still wasn’t what God had totally in mind for me but He was working behind the scenes.

Margaret and I moved to Florida and I picked up another idea not realizing that it was a God idea and a God calling. I spent some time writing thoughts about what I was reading but I still felt that the other one was the one that I was to put my effort into until last month when God let me know that I was to stop that one. This blog, Just Continue That Thought was my calling from Him and so here we are. And God is really using it to make a difference in sharing the positive message of Christ and to share good books with others.

I have always done this. I would read a book and then buy copies and give them to people. And now God has called me to highlight thoughts from my reading and share books that have meant so much to me.

He has been working behind the scenes of my life, orchestrating His destiny for me and He is doing the same for you. And it is so exciting to see Him doing it in my son’s life right now.

So how are you doing right now maybe in your time of searching and waiting?

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