Clever Strategies.

Last night, this quote from my daily devotional, 'Come Away My Beloved', touched me so deeply that I feel compelled to write :
"Thou needest make no plans nor resort to any clever strategy. Keep yourself in the Love of God. Pray in the Spirit. Rejoice evermore. Set your affections upon Christ."

I love this. "Clever strategy..." It's so easy in the daily hummings of life to try and control my own destiny, and not allow the Holy Spirit to guide me. For most of my life, I've had a plan, and it has been MY plan, certainly no one else's and definitely not God's! Still, even though I've given my heart to God, I find myself trying to plan out my own destiny... but faith will prevail, I know this. My faith in Him will win out over my old selfish ways of wanting to keep the power over my life and live for things of the flesh. I just want to hand it all over to Jesus, and say "Lord, take these plans I have set for myself... I only want your will in my life. I long to serve you Jesus. You humble me. You are perfect in every way and likewise, your will." In fact, right now... I am saying these things to Him, my King of Kings! He is so worthy of our praise. I feel so unworthy of all of His blessings. I am amazed every day at the love He has for me. Unfortunately, that innate human attribute of wanting to control is still hard to fight off, no matter how hard I try. But for now, my clever strategy will be to serve Him, trust in Him, and give Him all of my praise. Let his light shine, I pray, through me.