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Most of us pray for guidance.

What we often mean is, "God, confirm the path I've already chosen."

But guidance is only guidance if we're willing to be redirected.

Sometimes God opens a door. Sometimes He closes one. Sometimes the rhyme and reason doesn’t make sense to us at all. Choose faith.

Faith is not thanking Him only for the answers we wanted, but also in thanking Him for the answers we asked for. Or even the answers that we didn’t ask for that will be better for us, as taken on by faith.

We don’t know want we need. Trust who does.

Keep moving. Keep your head up. It is that path’s loss, not yours.

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A few days ago, I found myself praying a very simple prayer.

I asked God for one of two things.

Either let a relationship continue...

Or let it end quickly, clearly, and without lingering uncertainty.

I knew which answer I wanted.

Unfortunately for me, I received the second one.

My first reaction was disappointment.

But, why?

Did God not answer exactly what I prayed?

Not what I preferred. What I prayed.

The only thing harder than waiting on Divine timing is wishing that you had.

That reminded me of something that happened to Paul.

In Acts 16, Paul sets out to preach the gospel in Asia. It seems like a perfectly good plan. After all, spreading the Gospel is exactly what God had called him to do.

Yet twice, God prevents him from going.

There’s no explanation, no detailed roadmap. Just a closed door.

Only later does Paul receive a vision calling him to Macedonia. He follows, and that journey becomes one of the most significant missionary movements in history. Cities like Philippi, Thessalonica, and Corinth receive the Gospel because Paul accepted God's "no" before he ever understood God's "yes."

How many of us pray for guidance while secretly hoping God simply agrees with our plans?

I am making a commitment to have Him to lead me, and I will fight the urges that only want to move in the direction I would prefer.

A piece of real faith is submission.

It is the willingness to thank God for closed doors just as sincerely as open ones.

Because if we believe He sees farther than we do, then a closed door isn't merely a disappointment.

I don't know what God has planned beyond the door that just closed.

Neither did Paul.

But perhaps that's the point.

We walk by faith, not by sight.

Weekly Ponder

Where have I been asking God for guidance while secretly hoping He won't redirect me?

Can I thank God for the closed doors as sincerely as I thank Him for the open ones?

Is there a disappointment in my life that may actually be an answered prayer?

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