Still working on my blog post and will hopefully have it later in the week but I wanted to share a little article in the link below that I came across from a online Bible study I started this past week.
I have all these wishes and hopes for my life and honestly the waiting game is very hard for me sometimes. To the point where recently I have become very discouraged at times and questioned....should I even be praying for this? Am I wasting my time on something that isn't going to ever happen? Do I need to come to grips with "reality" and move on? And to be honest reading this article made me come face to face with something that I honestly needed to think about. Am I praying for these things with the intention of giving them fully back to God and to help glorify Him or am I just wanting them for me and my own comfort? Am I praying with selfish motive or with Kingdom-building intent?
And just like Hannah in 1 Samuel, instead of sadness and disappointment, I am beginning to find more hope and perseverance in continuing to pray for these things. Because I am learning that anything He chooses to give me down the road in this life is His gift anyway, that I need to entrust Him with and I need to be patient in the waiting period of my life. I don't need to be disheartened. He has a exciting plan in store and He is at work in ways I can't even see. And I am not alone. We are all waiting for different things in our lives, we just have to understand that God isn't holding off on answering our prayers because He wants to torture us. He is simply in the process of answering them in the most perfect way possible, even if it isn't the exact way we in our finite minds imagined. His ways are always best and I am going to keep on praying and believing and hoping, ever grateful that He still gives grace to this impatient and imperfect human being when she stumbles and falls. He always picks us back up and calls us His own.
https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/the-miracle-of-waiting-faithfully
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