There is so much I’ve learned this past year that has really enriched my life in an amazing way and it’s pretty crazy how bad situations can end up good. Something that really stood out to me the most throughout my journey was one simple word, and that word was wait. It literally came to me in a walk one day when I was feeding my farm animals and I was out just praying and soaking up the sunshine asking God what my purpose was, what his plan was for me, “What am I to do?” This is going to sound strange but it was as loudly as a whisper. Because it was so apparent and yet it was just quite. It really felt as though God was saying, “Wait.” A look of smiling came across my mind. Throughout the year I’ve had many instances throughout my life that was, “Wait.” I didn’t have a job and I was searching and searching and it was, “Wait.” I need a car because I was tired of my friends and family driving me around, “Just wait.” I was literally at home doing nothing not seeing a single soul. “God I can’t do this anymore!!” “Just wait.” I couldn’t understand why I needed to keep waiting because I wasn’t doing anything. I was just sitting at home without a job and I thought, “Ok I can’t just keep sitting here without a purpose that’s not what you created me to do. What I found out was that God gave me this amazing bubble of time where I had nothing else going on except to surround myself with him and spend everyday just surviving under him and so many times he tells us to wait and not everyone has the opportunity (I’ll call it an opportunity now) to put all of your work, your school, your family, all of your responsibilities, all of that aside. I really felt like I didn’t have much else and therefore I was saturated with this, “Ok I woke up again today, what are you going to take me through?” In the scriptures it says, “Those who wait upon the Lord will have renewed their strength, they will mount up with wings like eagle’s, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint. Those are all such empowering phrases are they not?! It’s not saying that waiting is wasting your time. I want to encourage you that if you are waiting today that you are NOT wasting your time waiting on the Lord. Because throughout any moment whether it is at the deepest or the highest experience, if you are in line with the Father then he has renewed strength for you, he has his will and plan inline for you. God blessed me with a job on March 3rd my birthday. I’ve waited three years and he answered that prayer in just three days. Sometimes our reward come here on this Earth sometimes our reward is in heaven. If you you’re waiting for heaven I promise it’s going to be worth the wait. He has an amazing reward for us at any point along your journey so stay faithful in the Father and wait in him whatever it is.
