No New Year’s resolutions for me. Rather, at the beginning of each year I take some time to reflect on the previous year and pray for the year ahead. When I do this I usually come away with renewed determination to complete any unfinished tasks God has previously assigned and work toward the new ones He has set before me. However, in the past, things have not always gone the way I had planned and I found myself getting frustrated. If I can be totally real, sometimes I still do. Then I think about the men and women of the Bible who at times were given a set of instructions but not the final picture. When God leads us to do things for Him, He won't, in many cases, show us all the steps in between. We won't know everything up front! I used to feel as if He wasn't there when this happened. I now know that when God sets us on a path and doesn’t connect the dots of that journey, He's giving us a chance to exercise our faith. His Word tells us to "walk by faith, not by sight" (II Corinthians 5:7). God doesn’t always show us how something is going to be completed, but we know that if God assigns us a task (places us on a path), He will guide us toward completion. In the words of Stormie Omartian, He gives us just enough light for the step we're on. The road ahead may be fog-covered to us, but God has a clear vision. He will connect the dots and reveal the full picture in time.
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