Let Him Have His Way   

Scripture shows us over and over that Jesus’ life was all about doing the will of His Father. Likewise, part of maturing as a Christian is coming to realize that your life should be a whole lot more about what God wants than what you want.
We all have our hopes and dreams for the future. We all make plans for our lives. And it’s very easy to get wrapped up in our own personal desires and our own self-centered dreams and plans. But growing as a Christian means becoming less interested in your plan for your life and more interested in learning about God’s plan for your life. You need to grow to that point when you can truly pray as Jesus did, “Not my will, but Your will be done.”
In Acts chapter 26, Paul it telling about what happened on that life-changing journey to Damascus. In verse 14, after falling to the ground, he said he heard a voice say, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.”
In case you don’t know, the goad used by farmers in that region would likely be a long straight piece of wood. On one end would be a pointed spike, and it would be used to prod the oxen while plowing. When the ox started to stray from the furrow it was plowing, he would be brought back to where he was supposed to be with a painful prick of the goad. 
Saul had been fighting against the goads. He had been fighting to hang on to his own plan for his life instead of going in the direction that God had planned for him.
Is it possible that you perhaps have done or are now doing the same thing? Sometimes we fight to hang on to our own selfish plans when we should be searching to know and live according to what God has planned for us.
Paul would later write to the Christians in Philippi about God wanting to bring about His will in their lives also. In Philippians 1:6, Paul wrote, “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” And then in 2:13, he wrote, “For it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.”
Paul wants for us to learn what he learned. He wants us to learn to let God have His way in our lives. God is trying to work in your life; He has plan for your life. The real key to your life having a great future is clear: Let God work in your life according to His will, not yours.

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