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Beautiful In His Time

Not yours, not mine, not the world's, but His.

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I'm a really impatient person. I usually have a schedule and I like things to follow suit. When they don't, I get impatient, bored, and out of sorts. This has bitten me in the butt a few times, especially lately. I not only like to plan, but I like to be able to control the situations that I am in. However, that's a really hard way to go through life and I am learning that.

Because you see, there is only so much that we can control in this life. Even though I like to have a plan for everything, my plans are nothing compared to the plans of Jesus Christ.

As a Christian, the only plan that I am sure of, the only one that I know will not fall through, is the plan that rests in Him.

God never promised that all things would be beautiful all of the time and He never promised that we would not suffer. What He did promise, however, is that all things would indeed be beautiful in His time. Not my time, not your time, and not the world's time, but His time. Learning this has been difficult, indeed, but not as difficult as journeying through the valley without my faith.

Although I am not sure what tomorrow holds, I do know that whatever I am going through and whatever I will go through will always be made beautiful according to His plan.

Pain, suffering, and hardship is inevitable. There is no stopping this world from beating and banging on our souls, but there is a King who can tell the ocean when to stop and the mountains when to move.

He carefully crafted us into existence and He knew us before we were even formed in the womb.

Thus, the ways of this world hold nothing against the weight of His hands. Although I cannot control the future and I cannot plan for what is to come, I can plan on one thing -- I can plan on having faith in the Ultimate Planner. The One who holds me in His hands. The One who will make all things beautiful in His time. Not mine, not yours, not the world's, but His.

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