Sometimes it’s hard to be content.
Sometimes it’s hard waiting on a prayer. You have dreams and desires in your heart that aren’t fulfilled. You have prayers that are unanswered. You are in a season of waiting but wonder if you will ever have that prayer fulfilled.
I want to be content in every season.
Sometimes I cry. Sometimes I’m angry. I doubt. I complain to God. Will you answer this prayer, Lord? Did I hear you wrong? I thought I heard you. I thought you said this thing would happen. Where are you? Where is the promised land? Will I ever see it?
I want to be content, but sometimes my heart aches, and all I want to do is cry out. I try to hold it all together, but I am not strong enough. I’m learning to trust the Lord. I know He has a plan.
Sometimes I feel like I’m in a desert. A lonely place of burning golden sand that stretches far out from me beyond what my eyes can see. There are no trees or streams in sight. Just rocks and sand. A barren place. A lost place.
I don’t know what lies ahead.
I have hopes and dreams and prayers.
I have God with me. So long as my eyes are fixed on him, I know he will lead me through each step in the dessert. My pillar of cloud by day, leading me step by step, and fire by night that keeps my hope aflame.
It’s when my eyes aren’t steady on him that I begin to sink in the sand like Peter on the water. Look to Jesus. Even if you don’t understand what is happening (I certainly don’t), turn your eyes upon Jesus. Jesus, we adore you and behold you, our Savior ever true.*
I’ve read the story of how the Israelites wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. They hoped in the promise of the Lord that He would lead them to the promised land. He led them by a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night. Where He led, the people followed.
I want to be led where the Lord leads. If He says go, I pray I will obey and go. If He says stay, I pray I will hear and obey. When I don’t understand, I pray my faith will be firmly planted in Jesus. I have hope. I have to trust the Lord and His plans. I pray He will be my strength.
I don’t have it all together. I struggle and fear. But I know my God is good. I know His plans are for good. I pray that you know the same.
If you are in a season of waiting, trust in God. Trust He knows what He is doing and that He is never late. You are loved by God. He is good. He has a plan for you.
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.“ —Jeremiah 29:11
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.”
—Proverbs 3:5-6
“Delight yourself in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him, and he will act.”
—Psalm 37:4-5
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”—John 3:16
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