A problem that I often face is planning each minute of my life, instead of enjoying the small blessings that each day brings. Most of my days consist of carefully calculating possible scenarios or even stressing about things that are not within my control. Over the last few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to reflect on how I have been living my life. I have recently come to the realization that we cannot plan our lives and expect everything to happen according to our own will. Instead, we must pursue God’s will and His plan for our lives because His plans are so much greater than we could ever imagine.
Sometimes, when we truly long for something in our lives, we rationalize this thing until it seems like God has to give it to us. Maybe you want something that could better His kingdom, or maybe this thing would make you a happier or more fulfilled person. Whatever this want might be, the Lord sees it and He hears your prayers. But He also sees what you need. The Lord sees that maybe the one thing that you long for is something that could potentially harm you. Maybe God has something or someone better than you could have ever imagined possible for yourself. This type of faith in God is so easy to preach, but it is very difficult to display this kind of trust at times. Trusting in God requires faith in the unseen and for practical people like myself, this can be difficult.
If your desires could help God’s kingdom and He still hasn’t given them to you, then maybe he is saying "wait," instead of "no." Throughout my life, I have longed for many experiences, items, people and even outcomes for certain situations. But I can honestly say that God has never closed a door within my life without opening another, or opening that same door again at a later time. Sometimes, we need time to focus on ourselves before we can be trusted with things that could be used for the greater good. There is something beautiful in waiting for the things that God has called to be yours. The wait might be tiresome and it might be long, but it will also be worth it.
“Trust In You,” by Lauren Daigle, says “When you don’t move the mountains I’m needing you to move, when you don’t part the waters I wish I could walk through, when you don’t give the answers as I cry out to you, I will trust in you.” I listen to this song about five times each day. It reminds me to put all of my trust in the Lord because the things that my heart desires will eventually be mine, and if not, He has greater plans for my life. I will leave you with Psalm 27:14, “Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart.”
