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The people have spoken…

… and by “people” I mean the four folks I’ve talked to about my last entry. 🙂

I’m all done with cyber-dating. As my friend Emily said just today, “If being matched with your former boss isn’t a sign, I don’t know what would be!”

In fact, I think I’ll just quote Emily’s e-mail to me this morning for the rest of this post, because she’s really smart:

  • God is bigger than Christian Mingle… despite what their commercials would have us believe. 
  • God can do anything.
  • The more we truly believe that, the more He proves it to us.

This last point is really convicting to me, because I used to be the girl who believed God can do anything. And I still am, and I still believe He can – but more and more these days I question whether He will do it for me.

I think I’ve figured out my problem these days, courtesy of a message I heard recently preached by another really smart woman who loves God (Christine Caine). I’m holding God to my own timeline, which was never one He created or is bound by. I have in my head the idea that if I’m not married and having children by age 35, it’s never going to happen. (The fact that one of my writing clients is a fertility clinic does NOT help this mindset…)

But God never said this, and has story after story in His Word about how He isn’t bound by our human processes and procedures. To quote Christine, “People give up on the promises of God when we confuse our due date with God’s appointed time. The Bible says in Galatians 6:9 ‘And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.’ Due season is not due date.”

I don’t want to ever be the woman who gives up on God’s promises because they aren’t turning out how I think they should. And with God’s (and Emily’s… and Christine’s… and your) help, I won’t.

And as I type this last sentence, this is what I see out my window. And you can’t tell me that isn’t a promise too.

Take that, doubt and fear.

2 thoughts on “The people have spoken…”

  1. I am currently doing Beth Moore’s study on Esther, and it is chock full of God’s invisible hands at work, all in “bad timing” (humanly speaking)… yesterday’s lesson included the infamous passage in Isaiah that says, “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength”… If we wait on the “event” or “the miracle” or “the thing” or “the wedding day” or “the baby” or “the man” or “the person”, we will lose strength, but if we wait on the Lord, we will be renewed. I so know where you are at, Ivy, so I can say with condfidence, put your hope fully in Him!

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