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Dr. Barrett processes how the Lord's way can be divergent from our own, and how to accept His way instead of our own.
Creators and Guests
Host
Dr. Barrett Deubert
The founder of The Real Health Co. and the host of The Real Health Co. Podcast, Dr. Barrett is passionate about helping people find true and complete health in any stage of life!
Editor
Grant Crenshaw
Content Producer at the Real Health Co.
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This week, I've been processing when God's plans diverge from ours. It can feel like a detour. And sometimes it's a scenic one. Sometimes it's full of mountains and valleys, maybe even some storms roll through. But the question, that I've been asking myself lately is when God's plans seem to be different than ours, how do we process that season?
Dr. Barrett:Right? How do we understand what's happening that season? So I wanna give you four things to hold on to that are truths from scripture to help you process potentially the season of life that you're in that may be a detour from what you thought your plans would be. So the first is one of my favorite scriptures, Isaiah 55, that His ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. So God's vantage point is so much different, it's eternal.
Dr. Barrett:We are thinking a lot of times from a temporary standpoint of time. He always looks at things from an eternal perspective. One of my favorite questions to ask is not asking "why God?" Like, "why in this season? Why am I in this season?"
Dr. Barrett:"Why God? Why me?" Victim mentality. What I like to ask is "what are you doing here, God? What are we doing here?"
Dr. Barrett:"What is this season about? Teach me to understand this season of life." Rather than why? ask "teach me." And I think He'll help you understand from His vantage point. "Hey, God, what do you want me to see that I'm not seeing?" Number two, I want you to re anchor in His promises.
Dr. Barrett:His promises say, Romans 8:28, that we know that God works out all things for your good and His glory. The reality is if we anchor back into the promises of God that He is always working out the best for you, then there's a sense of peace and joy that comes out of it. Even even if the how is unclear, the who is not. God is sovereign, in control, and wants the best for your life. Number three, be obedient even when it doesn't make sense.
Dr. Barrett:Whatever He's asked you to do, be obedient in that season. When we're obedient, regardless of whether it makes sense or not, knowing that it's God's will, then the the blessings of God fall from that. Not blessings monetarily, not blessings materialistically, but blessings of joy and peace and patience and and and the fruit of the spirit. That's what comes out of obedience. Proverbs 3:5-6.
Dr. Barrett:"Trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding. Acknowledge Him in all your ways and He will direct your paths or make your paths straight." Be obedient in the season of His plans, not your plans aligning. And then the last one is that in the season of waiting, expect God to show up and show off. He promises in Isaiah 40:31 that those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.
Dr. Barrett:There are seasons where there's just- it's just a waiting season, but the waiting season is one that builds strength and patience and endurance. Right? This life is about becoming more like Jesus. It's enduring to the end, to be found faithful in the end. Seasons are so small.
Dr. Barrett:Eternity's forever. When we are in a waiting season, expect that the Lord is refining you and growing you and developing you and helping build endurance in that season so that you can shift your heart from anxiousness and shift it to the peace that God is just working in the waiting. So when thinking through this season of life where maybe your plans didn't align with God's plans and you're asking questions of why, I want you to rather ask questions more on, "hey, God, help me see what you see." His thoughts are higher. "Help me endure with patience while I'm waiting."
Dr. Barrett:"Help me understand how obey in the season of aligning to His plans." And in that whole season, I guarantee He's gonna create clarity for you. He's gonna create opportunity for you. And more importantly, He's gonna give you the fruit of his spirit. Where there's where there's hardship and where there's hard, there's always grace that's sufficient.
Dr. Barrett:And when you're in His plans and His purposes, in alignment with His ways, and you're obedient in that season, the grace of Jesus will always be enough to meet every need according to His riches and glory.