I hate spoilers. I repeat: I hate spoilers. If anyone comes to me and tries to tell what happened at the end of that one episode of any of my favorite shows: I would not be happy.
Especially if it is one of my siblings and they were supposed to wait for me in the first place so that we can watch it together… Man!!! It would be the end of the world for me. It’s so bad that I purposely stayed away from all social media platforms for a couple of days after the finale of the Bachelorette just so I would not find out who Jojo ended up with. (Pathetic, I know. But I can’t help it. It’s one my guilty pleasure shows. Don’t judge. The Lord is still working on me!) I needed and wanted to watch the final episode to find out for myself. I can’t count how many times my sister and I could not discuss what happened in certain episodes of our favorite TV shows because I didn’t watch them yet. She would get so frustrated with me too. Bless her heart for sticking it out and waiting for me. On countless times, my brother has teased me and threatened to tell me what happened in the final episode of Suits season 5. He knew if he had revealed to me **SPOILER ALERT** that the season ended with Mike going to prison, I would have flipped and would be like:
To anyone who has not watched it yet, I’m truly sorry! But seriously, season 6 is almost over now. What are you waiting for? You need to catch up!
On the flip side of this, I don’t like telling people what happened in movies or TV shows either. And the main reason is because well, I would not want you to tell me. So because I would want you to let me watch it and find out for myself, I’m choosing to reciprocate the favor and not to tell you either. Go watch it and see what happened for yourself, then we can discuss!
There is however one major exception to that rule. Yes. There is that one “movie” or “tv show” or “story plot” that if I know what happens in the next scene or episode, I would be overjoyed. I wouldn’t mind…correction… I would actually welcome a spoiler when it comes to my destiny, purpose, my own story life. I am always bugging God, asking Him to reveal to me what’s going to be next in my life. When I didn’t have a home church, when will I find it Lord? When I got introduced to this super good looking man of Gawd, will He be my husband? When will you tell him to ask me out God and make this “thing” happen? When God blessed me with that job that I was not enjoying so much during my college days, how long you going to keep me here and when will I get a better one? When God helped me land the amazing internship opportunity at one of the best places one could work for, will I get a full time job offer from them after I graduate? Now that I do have a full-time job, will I get that promotion in 3 years? And if I want to keep it even more real; as I’m preparing for this race, some of the questions I tend to ask include: where will the money come from? What will I actually be doing each month? What will I do when it’s over? How am I going to take care of my hair if and when my hair products start running low (it ain’t easy being team natural in other countries)? Will I truly be changed? Will I really make an impact? Will I able to bring if anything at least one person (or 2) back to you? Yes, I will try my best to stay in touch; but will I be able to pick things up right where I left them off with my family, my friends, my church family?
In the midst of all these questions, I think that sometimes, God may be like:
Then He looks at me and He’s like: “Chill Steph! I don’t want to spoil it for you!” And He is right. I don’t think it’s wrong to ask the “what’s next?” questions. But sometimes, most times, I should learn to take solace in the fact my story is already written by God and He has it all planned out. And He will reveal everything to me in due time. His plans for me as the lead actor are plans to take care of me, not to abandon me, plans to give me the future I hope for (Jeremiah 29:11 – MSG). If that is not convincing enough, I should remember that God is a giver of good things (James 1:17 & Psalm 84:11). Thus, the role is giving me play is a great one. I’m talking about Oscar winning role – Heaven’s Edition. Plus, no one else can play that role anyway because there is only ONE me. I should be more content than the characters in these fictional story lines that we watch every day. Things don’t always work out well for them and that includes the “good guys” sometimes. But it is not and will not be the case for me because of Who is writing my story. Even when there is and will be a major plot twist and things take a turn for the worse and it’s my fault i.e. I put myself in that bad situation, bad position, bad place…You know… Like that person in the scary movie you are screaming at to not open the door because the killer is there. But the dummy that he/she is still opens the door anyway… So I’m saying even when I’m that “person,” I have nothing to fear (Psalm 23:4) because things will always work out for my good (Romans 8:28).
When I have such a good good Father who is writing my story, I should learn to sit back, relax and watch each episode each time He releases it. Because there is a 1000% guarantee that it’s going to be good. Ohhh sooo good! And juicy!!! I mean, have you read the Bible? The story lines of some of these individuals are crazy good! And the same person who authored them is the same person I’m serving today. I just should start trying to avoid spoilers and trust the writer of my story line.
All this to say: if God is the director, producer, writer, wardrobe and special effects person of my story, man! It is good! It’s going to be good! A MUST watch for sure each and every single day. And I want to encourage you to do the same: let God write your life story and reveal everything to you in His time. I promise you it’s going an amazing story that will bring glory to His name.
A few things:
1. Would you please consider playing a role in my story and:
a. Keep the trip, my team and myself in general in prayer. We need prayers badly in this preparation season
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