Your Road
       Is
  Charted!

There may be times in your life when you feel as if you’re wandering.  You can’t seem to arrive at the place you desire.  In those times it feels that where you end up isn’t planned.  There is some kind of unknown fate or force out there that arbitrarily messes up your direction.  But God is going to show you how your road is charted.  You’re not on a road where there aren’t any plans or preparation or projection.  He determines the start and the endpoints of each event.  He’s charted the road for every issue you face if you will take it.
I.    God Shows the Way.
II.   God Makes It Happen.
III.  God Designs Your Journey. 
IV.  God Keeps You on Track. 
V.   God Provides a Road Sign.    

   A Late
 Bloomer!

   You know the term “late bloomer?”  It refers to a person whose abilities to grow and accomplish something don’t show up right away.  It can be a child who develops at a different rate than others.  Or an adult who has a new responsibility at their job and at first they don’t quite perform but then they develop and are able to accomplish it.  There are many ways someone can be a late bloomer in their talents or abilities.

   The interesting thing is many times if a person isn’t “blooming” right away in some area, eventually they don’t just catch up to others but actually surpass them and become better.

   Also, something we desire to happen can be a late bloomer.  We’ve been expecting an answer or miracle from God and it still hasn’t happened.  The thing to remember when we don’t see something happen right away is that our road is still charted by God.  We will get there.  God makes it happen.  He causes what He has ordained for us to come to pass.

   Don’t feel just because you can’t complete a task a certain way or be successful in a relationship or in training or education or develop a skill or become all God wants you to be that it will never happen.  Or if your desire hasn’t bloomed, believe it still can happen.  God will cause it to happen because He has charted your road, the road of your life.  Trust Him to get you there.

   There was a man named Mike who had a dream to play professional baseball.  But in his younger years it seemed everything was against him.  God had charted his path but it sure seemed as if he wasn’t going to end up there.

   That can frustrate us.  We know that God has something for us to accomplish or to receive and we take action to get there, but it seems everything in the world is keeping it from happening.  Remember in those rough times to keep saying to yourself, “God will cause this to happen.”

   This young boy kept working and believing that.  Then when he got to high school, he played baseball but he developed two bad knees.  In his senior year, he had just one homerun.  But God planned for there to be a scout who watched him play all those years.  The reason?  The scout said, “I felt…that Mike was a late bloomer.”  So he kept watching him in spite of the limits he had so he could scout him for a professional team in the years to come.

   When Mike went to college and began playing baseball this scout was still watching him.  Others had written him off and thought he never would amount to much in baseball.  At some point in those years, Mike said he found what is the real foundation for living, Jesus Christ.  He committed himself to serving Him and allowing Him to chart his road.  He knew if he was to be successful in professional baseball, God would cause it to happen.

   God did.  He sent the right people, the encouragement, the health, and determination Mike would need.  Even in the times when he felt he wasn’t good enough and others didn’t also, the encouragement God sent kept him going down the road to see what He would do.  Instead of feeling it was all on himself, he knew he could rely on God.

   That is an important life lesson.  We can’t make everything happen that we feel is supposed to happen.  Oh, we’ve tried, haven’t we?  We shouldn’t feel it’s all up to us.  GOD is the One that causes it to happen when we take the road He has mapped out for us.

   Because Mike did this, he signed a contract with the Philadelphia Phillies as third baseman and played for them for eighteen years.  He was also known for his combination of power hitting and strong defense.  During that time, he raked up awards such as being a twelve-time All-Star and a three-time winner of the Most Valuable Player award.

   Mike was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995 in his first year of eligibility.  Many consider him to be one of the greatest third basemen in baseball history.  How do you take a kid who began playing baseball by hitting a tennis ball with a stick, who had bad knees, couldn’t hit a homerun, and make him a Hall-of-Fame great player?  That just happens when a person, even if their life is a late bloomer, recognizes God will cause it to happen because He has charted their road.

   No matter what you can’t see happen right now, remember God will chart your course if you will submit to Him and take His way.  Say as David did, Unto You, O Lord, do I bring my life.  (Ref. Psalm 25:1.)
 

Spiritual Powerline to say out loud:
“I WILL GET THERE!”

Here is a powerful prayer to say out loud:

Father, events seem to be going too slow.  It feels as if I’ll never see this desire completed.  But I know You have charted the way.  As I submit to You, You will get me where I need to be.  I praise You for what You’re doing now.  In the name of Jesus.  Amen.

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