Miles to Go

Proverbs‬ ‭3:5-6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.”

——- This is one of those verses that I tend to know and quote and start to “lose” the true meaning somewhere in the “memorization” of it. But really…. how powerful is this verse?!?! It’s not about “reading” the verse. It’s absorbing it, being a doer of the Word! Do what He says! Lean on Him, trust Him, surrender my feeble thoughts and ways and understanding to Him. He will direct me if I truly give Him the wheel … and stop trying to be a backseat driver too!

As soon as I was born, my parents found out that I had a heart defect. And two open heart surgeries later, my heart still isn’t perfect, but it’s functional. But today I got to thinking about how God is taking my broken heart and using it for His glory and His good. By His grace, I plan to eventually be a heart doctor for children, and it’s my biggest hope that I get the chance to save the lives of children who are going through the things I have been through myself.

And I just think that it’s so beautiful that God planted this desire within me. It’s something I’ve felt my entire life, and it’s honestly my favorite thing about myself. Because God wants to take what is broken and battered and use it to repair more lives. The world may look at my heart and say that it is useless and worthless, but God looks at my heart and sees that it is healed and repaired. He sees the potential within it, though it’s the most broken thing about me. He sees what it could be used for, and He looks past its appearance to see these things.