Switching Squadrons and God's plans

Josh and I have been learning the "long and hard" way lately about God's timing and plans versus ours.

A few weeks ago, we thought that Josh would probably be a part of his brother's squadron, VP-10. To our surprise we heard he would be in VP-45. While shocked, we agreed, this too was a part of God's plan for us and were delighted to hear that VP-45 would probably be deploying to family friendly sites that I would be able to visit (El Salvador and Italy).

Today, Josh received a call from a LT Commander to tell him that he would no longer be in VP-45, but that he was going to be in VP-10- the LT Commander told him "go hang out with your brother!" Josh hung up the phone and we were shocked! "Why God?!" we asked. We were starting to get excited about Josh being in VP-45. So....Josh will now be in VP-10 with his brother- don't get us wrong- we are excited about this, we are just confused!

On another note, yesterday, Josh found out that he would be able to participate in the Florida State Open (he had been given a spot to play as the "first alternate"). He was so thrilled! Unfortunately, he was not able to get next Friday off in order to participate in the 3 day tournament, so he had to decline the invitation.

There have been a handful of situations like these in our lives lately where we feel we have been playing a game of "red light, green light"- through it all (though admittedly not very willingly or happily) we are slowly learning the level of surrender God calls us to- COMPLETE surrender. It is easy to think we can have our plans (or even parts of our plans) and God's plans as one, but it is not always so!

James 4: 13-15

¹³Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." ¹⁴Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ¹⁵Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."

Proverbs 19:21

²¹ Many are the plans in a man's heart,
but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.