when life throws you a curveball

I'm just going to start out with how God says it because it is far better than my own words:

“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.
“And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so my ways are higher than your ways
and my thoughts higher than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9

Wow.

That's pretty clear that in life we are not always going to know what is going on, or why something happened or why things catch you off guard, or how life can take a turn if you don't have your eyes on the road in which God has you walking on.

Life isn't always going to be a perfect pitch right over home plate for us to hit a homerun on. Life is going to throw us a curveball to see how we adapt to it. Life's going to throw us a screwball to see how we can handle that one. Life's going to throw us a slow pitch to see if we are paying attention. Life isn't always a perfect pitch, but God is that perfect constant that can help us hit the ball over the fence. Even though life is uncertain, God is certain. With God's "training" we can know how to adapt to life's different pitches. We may strike out a time or two...but then we have that experience behind us and we know what that looks like and we can learn and be ready for what is to come.

God knows all. He knows the outcome of our lives. We just have to listen to (obey) His training in our life. . . He trains us all in different ways to prepare us for the game. It's hard to trust that He does know everything, because sometimes I think I know what is going on and I have it all together and I don't need His training in all aspects of my life- but that's just going to lead to another strike out.

How many times are you willing to strike out? Learn from what has already been thrown at you. So you can step up to the plate with confidence ready to swing that bat, hit that curveball over the fence and finish strong with God waiting for when you run over homeplate. . .