God’s timing. Is there anything more mysterious? For me, learning patience through God’s timing has been very hard. Are you patient? I’m not. When I see something I work toward getting it. I never expect things to be handed to me (growing up poor was a good way to embrace that lesson), but I learned early on that I was a hard worker and could accomplish a lot if I set my mind to it. What took me longer to learn was that sometimes I can work as hard as I want and still won’t get certain things because they aren’t up to me. That’s a hard one to swallow when you’re young (or maybe not so young!) and don’t get how God and His timing works.
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That’s one of the questions I’m going to ask Him when I meet Him, because while I can look back and feel immensely grateful for certain things (relationships that didn’t work out, mistakes I was saved from because of unanswered prayers) there are other things I still don’t get. But for now, I’m not trying to get them. I accept them as a part of faith.
Isn’t it refreshing to accept your limitations? I feel comfort in that.
The older I get, the more this passage hits home:
“The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
~2 Peter 3:9″
To me, this means that sometimes God waits to give you things until you can handle them. Oh, you might think you can handle them, but He knows better. The older I get, the more I realize how patient God has been with me, even when I haven’t been so very patient with Him.
