What is Best For You?

This is what the LORD says - your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:  "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.  If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the sea."  Isaiah 48:17-18

There is only one person who knows what is best for you - God!  However, the Word of God says that He teaches you.  This reminds me of a verse that James spoke to us.  He said, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because  you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.  Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."  James 1:2-4.  Every thing we go through in life is for a purpose.  God allows things to happen to us so that we will conform to His ways.  And as the Scripture in Isaiah says, He knows what is best for us.  All we have to do is trust Him.  Proverbs 3:5-6 says, "Trust in the LORD with ALL of your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight." 

Many times we fail to trust God with ALL of our hearts.  We choose when we want His help.  This shouldn't be.  If we know that He knows what is best for us, we need to rend our hearts to Him.  Joel 2:12-13 says, "Even now, declares the LORD, return to me with all of your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.  Rend your heart and not your garments.  Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity."  Let's make today a new day!  Let's turn from our ways, and make them God's ways!  Let's let go and let God!  I want God's best for me.  How about you?

Dear God, in Jesus name, forgive us for not always trusting in You as we should.  Today we are turning from our ways, and asking You to teach us and show us Your way for our life.  We want Your best!  Dear God, we want Your peace like a river flowing through our lives and Your righteousness like the waves of the sea.  In Jesus name, Amen!