Jul. 14, 2007 - Timing...again!
Did you ever feel like the Lord was hitting you over the head with a 2x4? Now I have often told the Lord, "If you want me to do such-and-such, then you will have to hit me up beside the head with it because I won't hear little whispers." After my last Bible Study (and I haven't done the next lesson yet - sorry!) I have been contemplating "time" and "timing". Then yesterday I was reading through Belinda's blog at !!Blessed By Bunches!! (www.homeschollblogger.com/Belinda) and she is dicussing God's timing. She uses the example of the Israelites. God could have sent them down the short road, the easy road but, unbeknownst to them, it had Phillistines waiting to do battle. So instead He sent them down the wilderness road. Can you imagine the Israelites reaction to having to go into the wilderness (lions, tigers and bears, oh my! well maybe not but...) instead of going down the (apparently) easy road? I know what my reaction would have been: "Obviously I'm not hearing you correctly Lord. I know there is no way that you would send ME into the wilderness. It is going to be hard living out there. We may not have food. I must have misunderstood you."
How many times in life has the Lord sent you down what appears to be the hard road instead of the easy road? Looking back now on the hard times in my life I can see that the Lord has used them to His Glory and to teach me things. Sometimes it is just to give me something wonderful!! Think back now...think of those boyfriends that you just thought were wonderful, but they dumped you. At the time, you thought the world would end. But along comes your Knight in Shining Armor and suddenly you realize what the Lord had planned was much better than what you were going to work out on your own!!! He really does much better if I can just have the patience to WAIT!!
I look at the things going on in my life now: infertility, losing Amy, owning our own business and I know the Lord is going to use those things for His Purpose! Now if I can just avoid planning and making my own decisions before He tells me what His plan is!! I know that what He has in mind is infinitely better than anything that I could possibly come up with on my own, but patience is not something that I was blessed with. Maybe this is His way of teaching me patience!! As the chorus goes:
They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up on wings as Eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. Teach me Lord, teach me Lord to wait.
Wait patiently for the Lord. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the Lord. Psalm 27:14.
Blessings to you today!
Kristi
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Jul. 14, 2007 - HI
Posted by Kinley
Kristy
P.S. Did you get my e mail about our similiar names??
