“HE TURNS IT WHEREVER HE WILL!”

 Proverbs 21:1-5                                 (ESV)

“1 The king's heart is a stream of water in the HAND of the LORD; “HE TURNS IT WHEREVER HE WILL”.  

2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart. 

3 TO DO RIGHTEOUSNESS and JUSTICE IS MORE ACCEPTABLE to the LORD than sacrifice. 

4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin. 

5 THE PLANS of the DILIGENT lead surely to abundance, but EVERYONE WHO is HASTY COMES ONLY TO POVERTY.”

KNOWING that GOD is in CONTROL is an extremely calming realization to experience.  I’m amazed at the people who actually believe that the U.S.A. will implode if their Presidential candidate doesn’t win the upcoming election.  While I prefer not to experience hardships, GOD isn’t fazed in the least by election results, and HE can’t be moved by our GOOD or EVIL intentions. 

We can try our hardest to make “things work” the way WE THINK they should, but GOD’s ways are NOT our ways (Isaiah 55:8-9), and without HIS LEADERSHIP, my life usually takes the wrong path!  What I must do is YIELD to HIS WILL and follow HIS LEAD!  A lot of the time I cannot SEE how the things that I am led to do by HIS SPIRIT are “profitable”, but THE LORD used nothing to make all of CREATION, and HE STILL doesn’t need my help!  All I need to do is TRUST and OBEY HIM!  

Since “The KING’S HEART is a stream of water in the HAND of THE LORD; HE turns it wherever HE will”, GOD can mold me into what is needed to bring HONOR and GLORY to HIS NAME.  Surely a peasant’s HEART is able to be molded if a KING’S HEART is but a stream of water?  My “impatience” in seeing results displays that my flesh is wanting to CONTROL me, not HIS SPIRIT!

A phrase that I refer to OFTEN, sometimes VERY OFTEN, is “What you will have to do is OVERRIDE your flesh and your own impatience, and simply rely on GOD’s peace through the Holy Spirit and God’s perfect timing as to when HE will want to open up that door for you”.  Knowing GOD ALMIGHTY is THE MASTER of everything should cause us to know that “HE TURNS IT WHEREVER HE WILL”!  HE IS GOD, and we are NOT!!!