Windex

So I was feeling very ambitious today. My house was a mess. 

My room didn't have a floor, the kitchen was piled with dirty dishes, and I think there was more dirt on our floor than there was in our backyard. 

Then there was the bathroom. Oh, the bathroom. This is my least favorite place to clean. Therefore it never gets cleaned as often as it probably should....

Well, like I said, I was feeling ambitious today. 

I made the sink spotless, the shower sparkling and the toilet...well, I at least wiped it down so that it looked presentable and maybe got a few germs off of it....

And then I decided to get the Windex out and shine up the mirror. However, this is where my problem began...

I got the Windex out of the cupboard and aimed it at the mirror - prepared for war and squeezed the trigger. 

Nothing happened. 

I looked into the nozzle, twisted it a little, shook the bottle, and aimed once more. 

Again, nothing happened. I proceeded to rapidly squeeze the trigger about 50 times in succession, thinking that maybe that would bring about the spray that would dazzle my mirror. 

Still nothing. 

At this point I was getting frustrated. After another couple of minutes of pumping the trigger with no luck, I put away the Windex and admitted defeat. The mirror would have to wait until I wasn't to cheap to buy more Windex - or fix the nozzle. 

Well, as I was battling the stubborn bottle of Windex, I thought to myself how many times throughout my life I have been in a situation similar to that one. Where it's like no matter how much I squeeze the trigger or how much I tweak the nozzle, nothing happens. 

My efforts are futile. 

Sometimes we have situations in our life where no matter how hard we try, how much we press, we just can't get what we want. For some reason or another, God has another plan and His will is going to be done no matter how much we pump that trigger. 

Maybe you need to fix the nozzle on your plan and re-aline it to fit God's plan. 

Maybe you need to toss that bottle out and go buy a new one entirely.

Or maybe, just maybe, you need to keep pumping the trigger....because you never know, maybe it will spray with a little more perseverance........

"The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations...but the Lord's plans stand firm forever; his intentions can never be shaken." ~ Psalm 33:10-11