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I am always seeking to understand my circumstances. I like to look at why things happened in the past and telling myself, that particular direction, lead to my current state. Understanding pathways is most likely not meant for the human mind to comprehend. Any state that you previously were in, may or may not, have anything to do with your current circumstance-life situation. Wish I could just try not to understand but just walk slowly day by day with the Lord trusting that his pathway is right where ever or what ever the current event may be.
And even if we choose a wrong pathway, or life places us on some difficult pathway, the Lord wants to use it to conform us to the image of Christ/ make us into a good human being. We just need to trust him and submit to him in that process. In the end, that's what really matters, whether good or bad decisions. I agree that it's too tempting and easy to get all "in in my head" trying to "unscrew the inscrutible." I'm trying to stop doing that myself. Thanks for sharing Robbie.