I nearly said no to writing this blog. Why, you ask? Because this is an area of my life I have had to walk through at a pace that is anything but the pace at which I think it should be. Have you been there? It’s also an area I’ve had to walk through that has required healing and laying down bitterness, jealousy, and surrendering my desires to His.
I think it’s safe to say that we all have an idea or dream in our mind of what we think adulthood will look like. Mine was this: grow up, graduate from high school, graduate from college with my degree, start my career, get married, buy our dream home, have children, live a white-picket-fence life that looks like it does in the movies. I thought I had it all figured out. Didn’t you, too?
As an only child I kinda sorta got most of the things I always wanted (shocker, I know). And I think it shaped my thoughts into thinking that’s how it would always be (until I matured and grew up some). So of course it came as a bit of a shock the older I got, that was absolutely not the case! LOL! I did graduate high school, I did go to college and get a degree, but got married halfway through. I never started the career I envisioned with the degree I got, we haven’t bought our “dream” home yet, we have 4 precious kiddos, and our life definitely doesn’t look exactly like it does in the movies. What all does that have to do with growing in God’s timing?
For me, it means I had to learn and believe that God’s timing is much better than mine. And choosing to surrender the control I thought I had to make my life look the way I thought it should. Ecclesiastes 3:11a says, “He has made everything appropriate in its time.” Isn’t that just so good? It brings such a peace to my heart knowing that His timing is perfect. His timing is always on time.
Growing in God’s timing looks like contentment to me. Contentment in our home and stewarding well what the Lord has given us, even if it’s not like the houses the influencers have. Contentment in my jobs, even if it’s not working in radiology and doing ultrasounds like I thought it would be doing when I was deciding what to do when I grow up. Contentment in my family and how the Lord has blessed us in ways we couldn’t have dreamed up on our own. Contentment that we may not get to go on luxurious vacations all the time across the globe, but being together in whatever we do is enough.
This reminds me of one of the episodes of the Chosen when the disciples are saying, “even if….. it would be enough.” In God’s timing I have grown to learn how much more peaceful life is when we truly let Him be in control, surrendering our mind, will, emotions, and desires to His. In God’s timing we are reaching the goals we have for our family. In God’s timing He will fulfill the desires of my heart, because as Pastor Anthony has shared over the last couple of months as we have been studying the book of Matthew, once we are truly in relationship with Jesus, our desires start to look more like His. And living in His will and His timing is the best place to be.
We want to thank Paige Keller for sharing this post.
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