Dead-end or New Beginning?

Often times when we face what seems like a dead-end, it's really just an opportunity for God to begin a new thing in our lives, or as someone said, something "Brand New". See the other day, I caught a glimpse of how God works, I find that He often uses things that seem so confusing to accomplish his will. While God is not the author of confusion, his thoughts are not our thoughts, his ways not our ways, that is why things can seem confusing at first but in that moment is when you need to trust him more. Believe me, I bite my lips when I say this because I know how hard it can be to trust when it seems like nothing is working, or when you think you've figured out God's plan for your life only for him to surprise you with something you least expected. I've had to face a couple of life moments recently too, that made me wonder, ahn ahn, "I thought this was supposed to be it Lord, I've made plans, what's going on here???" One thing I love about God is if you're attentive to the Holy Spirit, he tends to show you a glimpse of how God works in some small areas of your life, so to make it easier for you to trust him in big issues. But if you're not attentive to the Spirit, you may miss it or think it's nothing, you just got lucky. See I don't take miracles for granted, no matter how ordinary it appears.

Let me give you this gist, so the other day, it was cross over night, the last day of 2017 when most of us go to church some hours to midnight to give thanks to God and shout Happy New Year!!! I was a bit worried about my mode of transportation that day, the service was late in the night till early morning, because of the location of my church (very close to a dangerous express road) it's usually safer to drive than to go wait for a bus on that express but I wasn't going to drive that day and I was worried. See, going to church was not the issue but coming back was the problem. Well, inspite of my worries, I decided to go to church anyway, whatever happens God will help me.

After the service, I was about leaving when I ran into a friend, he gave me a Happy New Year hug and said he was just leaving too, I waved him goodbye then 2seconds after he left, it occurred to me to ask him "did you drive?" So I screamed, Heyyy Joe!!! Did you drive??? He answered, o yes he did, he also came with his sisters but that I could join them, so I did, I knew it was God that provided him as my mode of transportation, ope o!!!. We used to stay in the same area but it turns out that he had moved out of the area, I didn't know this at the time. His plan was to drop me somewhere close to my place, then proceed to his new place with his sisters but on our way, he missed the turning into my area, actually he missed two turnings, haaa! Guy you dey see road so? His sisters screamed at him. That's how he kukuma continued driving, as he had missed the only turnings into my area and no where to turn, let him just drive to his place then. You see in that whole confusion of Joe missing two turnings into my area and his sisters screaming at him upandan, I was calm... I was calm because I knew God provided this mode of transportation for me, so there must be a good reason for this pandemonium, I trusted him firmly and kept smiling, waiting to see what will happen.

So after Joe drove to his place, dropped his sisters, it turns out that there's a short turn to get to my area from Joe's apartment, he did "about turn" there and proceeded to driving me to my place. See initially before the whole pandemonium and finding out Joe had moved away from my area, my thoughts was that he would drop me at my bus-stop and I will just walk home from there, because my bus-stop was on the way to his former house but God had other plans... It was later I realized that all that confusion was so that Joe could drive me to the front of the gate of my house!!! God didn't want me walking home from the bus stop, who knows what could have happened to me? All those area boys that have been toasting me since, screaming "heyys sister, yellow pawpaw, my colour, is it not you I am calling?" Haaa! And he knew Joe wouldn't have been able to drive me to my house if his sisters were in the car, I certainly would not be comfortable with that because I don't like inconveniencing people, I would have rather walked. Then I was like wow... so this is what God meant when he said "All things are working together for my good".

You see, this is why I was quick to get over the life moment that happened to me recently because I know that in the midst of the storm, God is present. Well, I needed a few days to process things and note down the lessons but as for the pain of the event, I was over it in a minute! Especially when I know I'm getting my Full Reward this year...
God is an ever present help, he is the author of your life, he always has a plan and everything is certainly working for your good, it might be difficult to see it in the whole pandemonium but trust me, what seems like a dead-end is only just a new beginning. Sometimes God permits these things to happen to break you, in order to prepare you for the next level, he's taking you to. Cos' with God, we keep growing from glory to glory. So relax... God is about to do something BRAND NEW, unlike anything you've ever seen before, now it springs forth do you not perceive it? He will make a pathway through the wilderness, he will create rivers in the dry waste land. Isaiah 43:19.