The person who lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him. Galatians 3:11 (MSG)
I was asked to consult on a project for six months. Honestly, I didn't want to go because it would throw my schedule all out of whack. The hours would be long and it was going to be a lot of work. But, I had asked God to put me where he wanted and even though I tried not to go, I ended up on the project.
A couple of months in, I was tired and things had gotten a little crazy because of events beyond my control in my personal life. I was telling God "It's OK, I only have four more months." That was my conversation with him one night as I feel asleep.
The next day at work I had two conversations with people about God and how great he is. When I laid down that night and was talking to God about my day I said, "God, we only have four more months to work here. What do you want to do?"
What had changed? What changed was my attitude. Instead of trying to get through this assignment from God, I began to embrace it and welcome it as His. What would happen if instead of seeing things from our 'inconvenience' perspective, we looked at our situations from God's perspective? How would our attitudes change? If we embraced where God put us and saw our situations as something he arranged, suddenly the way we saw life would be so very exciting. Maybe one of our New Year's goals should be to be less me-focused and more God-sighted.
At the right time, I, the Lord, will make it happen. Isaiah 60:22 (NLT)