One thing that has been on repeat in my head for weeks, is this: thank God things don’t go according to my plan. I actually passed a church sign on the way to work the other day that said “WANT TO MAKE GOD LAUGH? TELL HIM YOUR PLANS”. Ha. Truth. The plans I had made a year ago are nowhere near to the life I am living now, and I am overwhelmingly grateful for that.
A few weeks ago, I stood shivering in the hallway outside of the church’s sanctuary with my cold, wet clothes forming a rather large puddle of water underneath me as I watched my siblings get baptized after me one after the other. I had been praying for this day for years, and to see it come to fruition for not only myself, but for all five of my siblings, made both my heart and soul feel much lighter than it had in weeks. All of those things that had felt so big to me a few hours ago, suddenly felt very small as I watched that picture of God’s love AND forgiveness being played out in front of me. To think that Jesus, an innocent man, free of any and all sins, DIED for the sins that WE have committed and then FORGAVE us for it, made me realize how miniscule all of my problems were, and how big His plans are for us.
There are times when I feel myself becoming impatient for those big plans that God has for me, and then I think back to what my pastor said one Sunday morning: “God is not in a hurry”. And it’s true. He isn’t. I think a big part of our lives nowadays are spent in front of computer screens and iPhone screens impatiently waiting for them to load the next video we want to watch, or the next social media that we want to keep up to date on. One thing that we keep forgetting is that God is not one of those computer screens or iPhone screens. He also doesn’t have to be anywhere any time soon, and He doesn’t really care if we feel like He isn’t “loading” fast enough. His plans will come to fruition exactly when He wants them to; not a minute sooner, and not a minute later. As it says in 2 Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance”. And that is where I am going to leave this post for the evening, so that you may wait for the Lord as it says to do in Psalm 27:14, and know that whatever you may be worried or stressed over, or whatever it is you feel isn’t happening soon enough in your life, God has it in control, and His plan will work out in His perfect timing.
