Sometimes I just have to disagree.
I received a newsletter that made my head shake. The theme was one most people find logical, accepted, and even embraced with fervor.
Does the title, “I Did It My Way” ring a bell?
Yep, it’s Ol’ Blue Eyes’ song that my friend mentions in his newsletter. The lyrics and Frank’s melodic voice stir hearts and sparks “Oooh’s and ahhh’s.”
Not me, though. I like his singing. But the message in this song roils in me. Let me tell you why. I tried doing it my way– letting my inner strength drive me forth, my dreams plunge me forward, and even attempted to let my abilities and skills open doors. This tactic works, quite well, I might add. Until, without warning, your world crumbles and pain filters like venom. Then your solutions are elusive and dark times threaten to suffocate you.
I’ve been there. And found when those times strike, reality flashes like lightening. Then my efforts show their true colors–, my feeble ways, my limited wisdom, and my weak efforts to change my circumstance accomplish nothing.
But before you knock me off my soap box, one more point: those who sing, “Do it your way” haven’t rolled in the mud of despair, or been stuck in the trenches of desperation. Some still insist, “Do it your way,”
God says,
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8).
Father, I confess I need you to keep me focused on your ways, your timing and your ability to accomplish what I cannot. I relish in knowing that it’s your power that is at work in me. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
- What have you been following lately?
- How will you change your ways?
- How free do you feel when you let God have His way?
Janet Perez Eckles,
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Janet, that was a wonderful post. I knew it would be as soon as I saw the subject. I thoroughly agree with you about that song and sort of tense up every time it comes on. It’s so wrong, and I hate to see people being influenced by it.
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Janet, I would never knock you off of your soap box, mainly because what you say is so true. Life is full of dark moments…things happen that are incomprehensible. I, too, lost a son, but not under the traumatic conditions that you suffered through. Still, we question “Why?”. God is the Master designer of our lives, in Him I put my trust. God bless you!
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