A close friend of mine recently told me that the next few weeks before I leave would be some of the hardest times to get through. Part of me knew he was right and part of me thought it would be no big deal. Turns out it is rather difficult to watch your friends that you have grown up with go off to college and experience all that college life has to offer. Meanwhile I’m just sitting around, it seems like, waiting for the things that God has next. For the past few days I’ve struggled with this a lot. The thought goes over in my mind: why do I have to watch all my friends go off and have a great time while I’m…. waiting? I took the advice of the same friend and got into the Word and sought an answer for this. What I found out kinda shocked me. I found out why God complicates your life. Yeah I know right, God complicating my life?? That doesn’t sound right. Yet it is, because God has a way of putting us in some crazy positions that seem like He is complicating our lives when ultimately it is going to grow our faith. Then when God shows up through all of the complexity, it all becomes clear. I believe that God puts us in places that are uncomfortable because that is where God will grow us that’s where he’ll prepare us if we’re ready or not. Most of the time we might not know what it is that he has for us, until further down the road; later, we look back and can see exactly why God put us in that position. So I don’t know what it is that God is gonna teach me in this time of waiting. I do know however that further down the road I will look back and see exactly why God kept me here, why he complicated those few weeks of my life. So I’m excited for that; I‘m so excited to see the ways God is going to use me. I can’t wait to be in the craziest possible position that God‘s gonna put me in to further bring the Glory of God to others. Because what’s the best thing in existence, it’s God. Plain and simple. So if God wants to use my life for others to know him, and if that means right now I have to sit and wait and let God prepare me for all of that, then that is what I will do cause if what I’m doing ultimately leads people from across the world to know God as well as people I’ve known for years here at home to know God. Then that’s the best thing I can do, it’s the best thing that anyone can receive. Because God is the best thing in existence.
