God's love!

Well this is only my 3rd post and I thought I would go ahead and share my heart. I have been a Christian my whole life (as far as I can remember) and always knew that Jesus died for me and that I loved him. I always felt that I had a personnel relationship with him and that he was always there for me. Well as I have grown and gotten older and have had more responsibilities given to me I haven't always relied on him for guidance and leadership. I have tried to do what I thought was the best for me and my family and not always said "God I don’t necessarily know what’s best for me or my family, so please guide and show me". Most of the time I just did what I thought was the best and most logical things without thinking about how it might effect others or how it might make them feel. I have been known to be somewhat of a closed minded person and if it didn't make perfect sense to me than it must not be the right thing to do. Well as some of you that are reading this might know I have a wife who is very creative and spontaneous and would go down to Africa right now and give up ever material thing she has just to dig well or plant gardens. Over series of events and wrong decisions or just flat out not being led by the Lord I have came to realize that I don’t know it all and that if an opportunity comes in life that I might not feel so excited about and is really out of my comfort zone that I need to always pray and ask God for his guidance, even it that means quitting my job and moving to Africa :). Anyways the point I'm trying to make or get across is that God's love is bigger and better than any love we could give or receive and that when you give everything to God and totally surrender he will make better decisions for you then you could ever have done on your own.