Encouraging Words About God's Timing and Loneliness
God's timing is an issue for so many of us, yours truly included. Waiting for what you know God has and wants for you is also hard, and yours truly can relate to that, too. As to the why, only God knows and most of the time He's not telling us!
What God does show us and tell us is that what we are feeling and going through is not ours alone, that others are there who understand because they are going through the same kind of things.
I have spent a lot of my life waiting, too and wondering what God was not(or is not) doing to fufill what I know He means for my life. Then I start thinking about the times when He did change things in my life (and, yes, the changes happened fast when they finally got going) and about how different things are now as opposed to some years back. I didn' t see how God was going to change things then, and yet He did. Big time! I don't see how and when He will change things now, but, I reason correctly, if He did these things in my life in the past when I knew it was in His plan for my life to do so, then He, who is the same today, yesterday and forever, will cause these changes in my life at just the right time. Ah, you ask when? I don't know. But I know Someone who does and someone who loves me and puts up with my humanity and all its limitedness and ugliness. I know someone who understands my passionately strong emotions and all the frustration and, yes, sometimes, anger at Him for making me wait so very long. I see in His word that I am not alone in this. Martha gave it to Him big time when He was nearby when Lazarus was dying and He did not come but arrived after he was definitely dead and buried. Sometimes I feel like Martha about some parts of my life that look like they are dead and buried. What was Jesus' response? He talked to her, He cried when He saw where Lazarus was buried, and He resurrected Lazarus.
Loneliness is a hard thingi. I truly empathize because I, too, have spent much of my life alone. Why? Am I unapproachable or unloving or unkind? No. Do I lack a sense of fun? No. I have learned, like the Apostle Paul, to overall accept whereever I am at whatever point in time and to truly be grateful for whatever I can do and be. Does that mean Paul never felt frustrated? Probably not. His choosing to think this way helped him cope with situations he could not change, and it allowed him to continue to be useful to God. The Bible is not only a love story between a God and His people but also my instruction book for living. Do I always follow the examples? Eventually, when I can wade through my disapppointments and see how others handled theirs successfully.
Will He resurrect your dreams and desires? Probably, as long as they are in HIs will and plan for your life. When? I don't know? His timing is a mystery.
IN His amazing love and timing,
Pastor Sharon Billington
http://www.encouragingwordsministries.com
Transforming lives through developing balanced, emotionally healthy relationships with God, others and self
What God does show us and tell us is that what we are feeling and going through is not ours alone, that others are there who understand because they are going through the same kind of things.
I have spent a lot of my life waiting, too and wondering what God was not(or is not) doing to fufill what I know He means for my life. Then I start thinking about the times when He did change things in my life (and, yes, the changes happened fast when they finally got going) and about how different things are now as opposed to some years back. I didn' t see how God was going to change things then, and yet He did. Big time! I don't see how and when He will change things now, but, I reason correctly, if He did these things in my life in the past when I knew it was in His plan for my life to do so, then He, who is the same today, yesterday and forever, will cause these changes in my life at just the right time. Ah, you ask when? I don't know. But I know Someone who does and someone who loves me and puts up with my humanity and all its limitedness and ugliness. I know someone who understands my passionately strong emotions and all the frustration and, yes, sometimes, anger at Him for making me wait so very long. I see in His word that I am not alone in this. Martha gave it to Him big time when He was nearby when Lazarus was dying and He did not come but arrived after he was definitely dead and buried. Sometimes I feel like Martha about some parts of my life that look like they are dead and buried. What was Jesus' response? He talked to her, He cried when He saw where Lazarus was buried, and He resurrected Lazarus.
Loneliness is a hard thingi. I truly empathize because I, too, have spent much of my life alone. Why? Am I unapproachable or unloving or unkind? No. Do I lack a sense of fun? No. I have learned, like the Apostle Paul, to overall accept whereever I am at whatever point in time and to truly be grateful for whatever I can do and be. Does that mean Paul never felt frustrated? Probably not. His choosing to think this way helped him cope with situations he could not change, and it allowed him to continue to be useful to God. The Bible is not only a love story between a God and His people but also my instruction book for living. Do I always follow the examples? Eventually, when I can wade through my disapppointments and see how others handled theirs successfully.
Will He resurrect your dreams and desires? Probably, as long as they are in HIs will and plan for your life. When? I don't know? His timing is a mystery.
IN His amazing love and timing,
Pastor Sharon Billington
http://www.encouragingwordsministries.com
Transforming lives through developing balanced, emotionally healthy relationships with God, others and self
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