We often make careful plans for our lives, only to find that interruptions come to alter what we had hoped to accomplish. Our plans get interrupted and our goals get disrupted. A job change. A bad diagnosis. A family problem. A sick parent, spouse or child. A fire. A storm. An accident. A bomb. Persecution. These are the things of life that happen to us, over which we have little or no control. These we commit and recommit to our Lord, sometimes with tears. Interruptions and disruptions may even open some surprising doors for ministry. They certainly call for patience and perseverance.
“Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance, persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!” 2 Timothy 3:10-11 (NASB)
