I don't know about you, but sometimes I feel as if God's favourite word is "wait." I see or imagine something, get excited about it and say, "Aright God, I'm ready. Lets do this!" only to hear God tell me to wait. Or I have a plan in my head of something that should happen by a certain point, and when I get to that point, instead of making it happen God says wait. Wait, wait, wait - I gues its a nice way of saying "have patience Grace!" But here is something I am slowly learning - Godly patience is very different than the patience we practive here on earth.
Godly patience means waiting for an uncertain amount of time, for an uncertain thing, travelling down an uncertain road. That's a lot of uncertainty. Something that I myself struggle with.
"Just give me a hint God. Just something to keep me going." I'm always asking him, but still I feel like I'm sitting in the dark waiting for something I don't even know is coming. Its frustrating to say the least. So I bring out the "why" card.
"Why can't I have it God? Why can't you move? Why are you saying wait? Are you saying no?" Waiting can be really hard. Waiting with all sorts of why's running through your head can be even harder. But God is a loving God and he doesn't leave you sitting in the dark without something to hold onto. A promise. Actually, plenty of promises.
"I will never leave you or forsake you."
"I will uphold you with my right hand." and a personal favourite:
"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than we could ever hope, dream, or imagine according to his power that is at work within us.... Ephesians 3:20"
When you have a head full of dreams and plans, when the life that you have carefully designed in your head just isn't living out the way you wanted it to, this verse is the perfect promise. Because what ever you dream, hope, immagine or plan - God can and will do immeasurably more. He is going to take your plans and blow them out of proportion in his plans - which are way more exciting and fullfilling than yours could ever be!
Don't get frustrated when God says "No" or "Wait." Get excited - what he's really saying is , "I have something so much better!"
Just another fellow waiter,
Gracie
Godly patience means waiting for an uncertain amount of time, for an uncertain thing, travelling down an uncertain road. That's a lot of uncertainty. Something that I myself struggle with.
"Just give me a hint God. Just something to keep me going." I'm always asking him, but still I feel like I'm sitting in the dark waiting for something I don't even know is coming. Its frustrating to say the least. So I bring out the "why" card.
"Why can't I have it God? Why can't you move? Why are you saying wait? Are you saying no?" Waiting can be really hard. Waiting with all sorts of why's running through your head can be even harder. But God is a loving God and he doesn't leave you sitting in the dark without something to hold onto. A promise. Actually, plenty of promises.
"I will never leave you or forsake you."
"I will uphold you with my right hand." and a personal favourite:
"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than we could ever hope, dream, or imagine according to his power that is at work within us.... Ephesians 3:20"
When you have a head full of dreams and plans, when the life that you have carefully designed in your head just isn't living out the way you wanted it to, this verse is the perfect promise. Because what ever you dream, hope, immagine or plan - God can and will do immeasurably more. He is going to take your plans and blow them out of proportion in his plans - which are way more exciting and fullfilling than yours could ever be!
Don't get frustrated when God says "No" or "Wait." Get excited - what he's really saying is , "I have something so much better!"
Just another fellow waiter,
Gracie
I totally understand. My friend and I were talking about this the other day! It's easy to talk to God and let him know what's going on but the hardest part is waiting for him to talk to you.
ReplyDeleteOh yes. Definitely :) Especially when its your last year of school, and he's still not saying. Career advisers just don't seem to like me telling them that I'm "waiting on God." :)
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ReplyDeleteIt's not the preferred answer! :) Luckily I've known what I've wanted to do since I was three, the only one out of all my friends. God has interesting ways of showing us what to do!
ReplyDeleteHe sure does! Wow, 3! Thats awesome :) What do you want to do?
ReplyDeleteI'm going into elementary education! Sometimes I feel like I'm just going into it because it's something I'm familiar with, but then I get into a classroom and I realize that it's more than that! It's a passion!
ReplyDeleteThat is really great :) To be honest, I can't imagine going back to school after spending 12 years there, but I know people who feel the same way that you do :) I have an idea in my head of what I want to do, but sometimes those dreams just seem a little unreachable!
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