Learning to be okay with God’s Time and God’s Way
A.k.a.: Learning to Trust
(Somewhat of a continuation of #5: Just do your job)
1 Peter 5:6-7: “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxieties on him because he cares for you.”
In due time! Such a scary thought for us. Such a hard thing to accept and to wait for. How hard it is to humbly submit our lives to the Lord’s timing and way. But if we want to have the kind of life He wants for us, then we have to learn to humble ourselves before Him and to wait for Him to lift us up - in His time and in His way.
But we're too anxious for that, aren't we? Too hasty? Too self-focused? We want what we want when we want it. We have our own ideas of how and when things should happen. We have dreams we want to fulfill, plans we want to succeed, goals we want to achieve, and prayers we want to be answered... NOW! And yet sometimes, time goes on and things aren't working out the way we hoped or expected, and so we pray some more, but nothing happens, which makes us more discouraged and leaves us wondering if God is even listening. Or maybe there's something wrong with us and our faith?
