My steps are determined.

In his heart a man plans his course,
but the LORD determines his steps.

Proverbs 16:9 NIV

This past week, I have just been overwhelmed with a sense that God's hand is upon His children, though He may seem far, He always seeks to be intimately acquainted with us and the intricate details of our lives. This includes our dreams.

I can have all these plans and ideas of where I want to go on this journey called life, but God's plans are way bigger than mine, and He is the one who will determine where exactly I go. His plans and his thoughts concerning me are far above and beyond what I can imagine.

I read somewhere where the question being asked was, if you were to die in 24 hours what would you want to be doing in the last say, one hour? The answer someone gave was that they would be playing their guitar. That person is doing the thing they love to do, the thing that God fashioned them to love to do and therefore what they should be doing in life is aligned to them playing the guitar.

I found this in my life, where for so many years I was doing the things, I thought in my head made sense to do. For example, go to college or varsity, get a degree, get an office job, etc. Yet a lot of the decisions I made concerning my career or vocation, was based more on what other people told me rather than what I love to do. What I believe I was born to do. When I started doing those things more seriously, that I truly love to do, that I wish I could take to my office job and spend the day doing (which was very recently mind you), the joy I have felt is inexpressible. There are days when opportunities to learn, grow and do more of what I love to do just fall in my lap. I'm amazed at how God is just opening so many doors, I truly wish I could have gotten the revelation to do what I love, earlier. I could have been getting paid for it by now :-).

My steps are determined by God, I can do nothing else but succeed and be victorious in all the plans that He has for me.

I will lead them...
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD:
and he delighteth in his way.
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down:
for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

Psalm 37:23,24 KJV

I couldn't resist.

From marianalynne.blogspot.com/

Hi

Yaaaay, I'm blogging!

For so long, I had been getting the nudgings, (yes, I know that is not a word, it's a Tafism), the invisible elbow poking in the ribs, to start writing a blog. For so long, I put it off, thinking of every reason to not to do so. For example; I feel like procrastinating, so unless there's pressure to do so, I won't or let me go get some ice-cream first. Or who's going to want to read what I write? But I finally gave in. I heard, Just do it and Yes, I can. So I did it.

Anyway, I like to muse, to ponder, to be inspired then to chew on that inspiration, until it is chewless (just got an arbitrary picture of cows and donkeys chewing incessantly on grass springing up in my mind). Writing is my outlet, so this blog will serve as a medium for all the stuff in my head and heart to be released, to inspire, empower, reform and bless others. I love God, and without Him I would be an aimless, sad and tormented person. I am His and He is mine, I live to bring Him glory.

So although my posts might be a little random, (sort of like my thoughts), there will always be musings and they will always come from me, first and foremost, a child of God, a freed soul yearning for more of my Lord. Hence the title, musings of a freed soul.

Enjoy.