We may think of our journeys from cradle to grave as long and winding roads, and that's entirely appropriate. We can also break our lives into smaller segments, which can seem lengthy and circuitous, especially while we are going through them.
Particularly when we are waiting to see God move in our lives somehow, the wait can seem endless. Sometimes the extra twists and turns can be of our own making, resulting from dumb decisions we've made. But other times, the delays (or perceived delays) could be due to God's actions or timing.
Why would that be? I don't have a good answer, other than to say that God's ways are often beyond our ability to understand (Isaiah 55:8-9). When we wait for Him, it might be because He is working on something else (maybe even with someone else) that needs to happen before our desired outcome can be achieved. Or maybe we need to wait because He is teaching us to be patient or that nothing is more important than our relationship with Him.
And at the end of the day, that's probably it--that the most important thing for our eternity is our relationship with God. We can and should lean on Him, lean into Him. We need to trust that He is working for our good, as Paul points out in his letter to the Romans:
I know we want what we want, and we want it now, but our desired timing is less important to God than our relationship with Him. One of the really effective ways that we can develop our relationship with Him is by developing our trust muscles, our faith in Him.
Because God knows the plans He has for us, and in the end those plans are good. He gives us hope and a future. Let's thank God for that, in spite of our long and winding roads.
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