"but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles they will run and not grow weary they will walk and not be faint."
Isaiah 40:31
Today I want to write about waiting, as my title says. How many of us aren't just tired of waiting on God and his plan to finally be fulfilled. Sometimes we grow so tired of waiting that we start thinking 'maybe this isn't his plan at all...' I know sometimes I think that, so today I want to share a bit of my testimony.
God has taught me patience in his way of teaching us patience, by putting you in a situation that will test you. In my case it was with school. Since I was little I've always wanted to become a lawyer and study law in the Netherlands. My ideas for a career changed during high school but the idea of coming to the Netherlands always stayed strong within me. When it was time to start looking for university my aim was the Netherlands, but in the end I started my bachelors in Curacao. Why? Because God told me: NOT YET. Emphasize on the "yet".
God knows exactly when the perfect time for his plan to be fulfilled is. Maybe we think that he's taking too long, or maybe so long that he forgot so we should take matters into our own hands.
School wasn't the only time God told me to wait. When I had my first boyfriend, I was crazy about him, but he wasn't a Christian so I had to make a choice, again it wasn't yet time to be with someone, I had to mature more and change. I wasn't ready yet.
"He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority."
Acts 1:7
I have a friend. She has been single for a very long time and she has given up. Or that's what she told me a few days ago. She has started thinking that maybe having a husband isn't what God has in mind for her. I don't agree. But the thing is, sometimes we put the plans God has for us before God. They become our new 'god', and there's where it goes wrong.
God doesn't want us to specifically trust the plan, but he wants us to trust the planmaker. If I had gone crazy and decided to disobey when God told me to wait, maybe now I would be studying law still but maybe in other terms. I am in the Netherlands studying and I LOVE IT! I can see God's hand in everything. I live in a big city, and there I found a room near my school and near the centre. My room is great, my classmates are awesome and all because God had every little detail planned and all I had to do was wait on his terms and his timing.
What do I tell my friend who has given up? I told my friend to stop focussing on the plan, and to start focussing on the planmaker. God makes the plan and he makes the way, all he asks for us is to obey him and look at him for each step we take. Fix your eyes on Him.
If you are like my friend ready to give up, because you think that maybe you understood the plan wrong, that maybe it's just your own heart deceiving you, don't loose heart. Look up to the one that is making the plans and making the path. Maybe you think his not yet was a not anymore, and that isn't the case. When God is planning he also plans the time it will take to fulfill it because he knows us and he wants us to be ready for the plan, so he makes the way to prepare us.
Even the plan for Jesus took its time. He started when he was 30. His people walked the desert for 40 years! So STOP worrying so much and start trusting more. I always say trust his plan, but that changes today into trust Him who makes the plans.
I want to encourage you today to trust in the Lord, not his plan but just Him. You will see that everything he has been putting you through is to teach you, to prepare you for the great plans he has for you.
God bless you and keep being a blessing to those around you.
PS: These days I've been listening to the songs Fix my eyes and To the dreamers by For King and Country. These are great songs to encourage you to trust Him. And I personally love these songs too. =)
