Patients

“Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him” ~ Psalm 37:7

Patients…man, that’s a hard thing for me to do at times! Within the past few weeks so many things have changed! I have ended my junior year of college, friends have graduated and moved off, I continued looking for a new job, and waited for a sign of what summer is going to be like! I have been asked so many times what my plans for the summer are going to be and what activities I plan to be a part of this coming fall. Up to this point my answer has been “I have no idea, it all depends on this new job”. I have been waiting and waiting for just some kind of clue and my patients have been running thin!

I had a wonderful opportunity this past week to talk with a friend about Gods plan for us and how hard it is to wait and have God show us just enough to keep us going. Seeing our friends graduate and so many not knowing what is next for them, gets us to thinking what is soon in store for us! Finally being accepted into college and moving away from home opens so many doors and you feel that you can see forever down the road of life! When really as you continue college and you get to that final year, reality kicks in and you arrive at another set of doors. There are so many options but you have no idea what lies behind each door that is in front of you. Faith, that’s what we are all relying on now! Knowing that God has this amazing plan for our lives and he will reveal those special things that determine our lives at the most perfect time is what makes life what it is, and makes it so great!

Back in April I ran for President of my sorority. Not fully knowing my plans for next year, I felt the urge to run. I have loved being an officer this year and it has been a great growing and learning experience. I continued to pray that God would place me where I needed to be next year. I knew that I would be graduating, thinking about graduate school, and possibly moving. I didn’t want to take on anything I couldn’t handle or fully accomplish; I know God took control of this choice of mine! He stepped right in, as I knew He would, and told me that this position was not meant for me. It wasn’t until today that I realized why. God has provided me with a wonderful new job that opened up another door in my life. This job is using my degree and gave me hope for graduation and other options that I wasn’t able to see before.

It’s funny how we can even begin to think that we have this great plan for our life! God is the ultimate decider and for us to try to step in and make our own decision is just plum crazy! “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks the door will be opened” ~ Matthew 7:7-8. I encourage you to think about your future no matter where you are in life! Start praying for God to show you those big thing that are still going to happen in your life, but make sure they are shown to you in HIS time! Learn to be patient with everything; it is totally worth it in the end! “And my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus” ~ Philippians 4:19