Dads plan

I heard this story once about this couple and their six year old daughter who went on a two week vacation to California. When they arrived at their hotel the daughter was so excited because she saw the hotel had an indoor swimming pool. So the Dad loved his little girl so much he decided to allow her to go to the hotels pool and he would watch over her as she swam while the Mom unpacked their things. The daughter swam in the pool for about two hours and when the Dad finally said it was time to get out of the pool, she didn’t want to go. So the Dad allowed her to swim another ten minutes, then another and another until finally he had to actually get in the pool himself and carry her little six year old body kicking and screaming all the way back to the room, all because she didn’t want to stop swimming in that nice hotel pool. But to her surprise a few minutes later her Dad and Mom drove her to the beach where she was introduced to the pleasure of swimming in the ocean. And after swimming in the ocean the six year old never swam in the hotel pool again.

Now this story reminds me of us and our Heavenly Father. Sometimes we settle for a hotel swimming pool when our Heavenly Father or our Heavenly Dad has an ocean he wants us to experience. You see there are times in our lives I really believe we settle for less than what God has or wants for us. But we miss out on His plan because we're not always willing to give up our will for His in order to experience it.

So maybe we should ask ourselves everyday, what am I settling for?

Because whatever it is, I guarantee you Dads plan is way better!