I am not always a very patient person. When it comes to something that I want in my life, I can be straight up impatient. They say that you should wait patiently, but I tend to wait impatiently and it can drive me crazy. My attitude toward the situation will in no way make something come faster, but my attitude can make the time pass better.
When I was in college, I was impatiently waiting and actively looking for the girl of my dreams so that I could fall in love, get married, and live happily ever after as the story goes. It took a lot longer than I wanted it to and I could have made some early decisions to get what I thought I wanted only to find myself in a mess. By allowing God to work it out in His perfect timing, things really worked out perfectly. But because of my impatience I had to deal with some pain before the good parts came.
I was reading Exodus 32 the other day and in the first couple of verses I learned that the reason the Israelites made the golden calf was because they were tired of waiting for Moses to come back down the mountain. I used think that the Israelites were weak for turning so quickly, but I knew the end of the story. I also see myself doing the exact same thing in my own life. Scripture smacked me in the face again. I often dream of the future and what is next in my life and that is fine until I start ignoring what I am supposed to be doing right now.
Do you spend too much time thinking about what is next in your life and how to get there instead of dealing with where God has you right now? Let me encourage you and myself at the same time by saying that God has tomorrow handled. Its okay to dream, but don’t forget about the present.
I also wanted to share the lyrics from a song called Something Beautiful by Need to Breathe because this song was encouraging to me.
Hey now, this is my desire
Consume me like a fire, ’cause I just want something beautiful
To touch me, I know that I’m in reach
‘Cause I am down on my knees.
I’m waiting for something beautiful
Oh, something beautiful
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