{"id":36,"date":"2013-02-11T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2015-03-25T15:12:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:12:37","slug":"a-hijacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"A Hijacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My life was recently hijacked&#8230;..&nbsp; Thankfully, the culprit has been caught. &nbsp;  It was me. &nbsp; I hijacked my life from God.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Now, I didn&#8217;t put a gun to God and tell Him to let me take over.&nbsp; But by going my own way, refusing to&nbsp;listen to Him, and not asking for assistance or even any advise, I&nbsp;hijacked my life.&nbsp; &#8216;It&#8217;s your life,&#8217; you may say,&nbsp;&#8216;how can you steal something that&#8217;s yours?&#8217;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ahhh- but my life is not my own.&nbsp; I belong to God.&nbsp; He&#8217;s the one who bought me with the blood of Christ.&nbsp; He&#8217;s the one with the plan.&nbsp; He knows where I&#8217;m to go and how I&#8217;m to get there.&nbsp; He&#8217;s the one with the power and the knowledge.&nbsp; Yet,&nbsp;there are times when I have chosen to&nbsp;live as though I am my own; that I&#8217;m the one with the plan.&nbsp; And I do have plans.&nbsp; The problem is my plans don&#8217;t always&nbsp;align with God&#8217;s plans for me.&nbsp; And honestly, I don&#8217;t even think to ask Him.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s during those times that I find myself lost and confused.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not sure where I am or how I&#8217;m going to get to where I want to go.&nbsp; Quite frankly, I&#8217;m not sure where I really want to go anyway.&nbsp; So I am left feeling lost, alone, frustrated, and a little scared.<\/p>\n<p>So what did I do when I realized I had hijacked my life again?&nbsp; I stopped, confessed my crime (sins) and asked for forgiveness.&nbsp; The beautiful thing about God is that when I ask, He always forgives.&nbsp; His grace and mercy flow generously over my life and heart.&nbsp; Upon thanking Him for His wonderful gift, I asked for help, direction, and wisdom.&nbsp; I let Him decide where I go, how I get there, and when.&nbsp;&nbsp;And now my life is filled with peace and&nbsp;contentment.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Along the way, I know I will be tempted to go my own way again.&nbsp; I pray that in those times, God reminds of&nbsp;the uncertainty when I go my way and that I&#8217;ll leave the driving to Him&#8230;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My life was recently hijacked&#8230;..&nbsp; Thankfully, the culprit has been caught. &nbsp; It was me. &nbsp; I hijacked my life from God.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now, I didn&#8217;t put a gun to God and tell Him to let me take over.&nbsp; But by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/?p=36\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}