TRUSTING IN GOD’S PERFECT TIMING

A delay in the manifestation of what we pray for frustrates our faith and shutters the hope, causing us to grumble. The earnest desire for many of us, if not all, is to see an immediate change in our situations if we pray about them. This, unfortunately, can end up misrepresenting what an ideal relationship with God ought to be. Trust in God goes a long way and this entails being aware of who God is. “God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.” 1 John 3:20. Our inability to perceive an immediate change does not negate God's abilities to know what we desire.

On several occasions, we prefer things done our way while ignoring the reality that God has a plan well laid out for us as well. By trusting Him to be able to grant us our desires, we ought to trust that His plans and ambitions for us are better than ours. He says in the Book of Jeremiah that He knew you even before you were minted in your mother’s womb and called you by name. You can now know that you are not off His radar.

In Jeremiah 29:11-12, He confesses that about how He knows the plans He has for you; plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. And goes ahead to let you know that when you will call on Him and come and pray to Him, He will listen to you. You can be certain that He listens, and to perform will be in His perfect timing for you. Never let loose of hope in God, because it never disappoints. Have it at the back of your mind always that God is much concerned about you than you think He is and than you about yourself.

If in all, our trust leans on only Him and we fully submit our will and selves, then we can be rest assured that our paths will be straightened. We shall be set on course and for the record, there is no amount of "being able to figure it out" that can outdo what God is able to do for us if we let Him. No matter what the circumstance is, desist from resorting to worrying first because worry will not uplift your soul but keep it downcast. When caught up at crossroads or feel the temptation to worry, prioritize prayer and God's peace will guard your heart.

Lastly, I commend you to know that there is a time for everything. God desires that you trust Him to be able to do whatever you can conceive within your desires and in bring you to that place of fulfilment, promises to never leave nor forsake you. The key is in allowing Him in because He is not imposing and whatever He starts, trust that He always finishes.

 By Nabaasa Arnold Burton