those who wait...


yesterday i published a song that i kind of like...A LOT. not necessarily the screaming part, but the message. waiting on the Lord is one of those things that i've struggled with accepting. after all, don't i know best? my time line is better...things actually happen when i'm in charge, right? oh boy - guess again silly goose! there is verse after verse of God calling us and encouraging us to place our trust in Him and wait on Him to work. often when i try to take things into my own hands, force things to happen, i end up frustrated, wore-out, and things end up worse than when i started. and it's like God whispers "i told you to wait," but not in a little sibling annoying way of "i TOLD you so!" but more of a loving and tender reminder of the Lord saying "I was there all the way through your difficult time - just waiting for you to reach out and take my outstretched hand. I wanted so badly for you to rest confidently in Me and let Me work things out in your life on My time line because I have a perfect plan for you my child...I was pained as you were pained, struggling to make things work on your own, and it hurt Me that you did not trust Me to provide everything you needed."
...God loves it when we are dependent on Him b/c then He receives the glory when we come through hard times. i know that God's perfect plan is so much better than anything that i could think of. i know that i am rewarded when i wait for the Lord to provide. i know that God has provided everything that i need all of my days. there are so many things that i feel like i'm waiting on in life...so i guess i'll keep waiting. and continue to learn what it means to fully trust in the Lord :)

"Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is in the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spread out its roots by the river and will not fear when heat comes; but its leaf will be green and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit." Jeremiah 17:7-8

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