Be Intentional. Be Ready.
It isn't a two-way street all of the time with God. It is in the sense of us needing to strive to be like Him and pray intently, He isn't going to just magically appear and tell us what to do and take all of our worries away if we don't ask Him to. On the other hand, though we can't ask Him to do something, and then when He does say "oh not that way though". All throughout my high school years, I always wanted God to be glorified, I wanted everything I did to be in His image and likeliness. I prayed so many times for God to break me down and mold me into someone He could use, and read countless times the passage in Isaiah that says "Here I am, Send Me" and wanted that wholeheartedly. I wanted so badly to be used by God to further His Kingdom. At that time though, I am not sure if I completely understood what that meant. When I got my concussion in 2015, I had so many people praying for recovery and praying for it to go away, for complete healin...