We know that God's plan for our lives is good, and when we entrust ourselves to Him, we can experience total peace and happiness. There are times when we might give up if we knew how long it was going to take, but when we accept God's timing, we can learn to live in hope and enjoy our lives while God is working on our problems. Although frustrating, not knowing the exact timing is often what keeps us in the program. God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He doesn't always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan. If He did everything we asked for immediately, we would never grow and develop. Looking at it like this, it is easy to see how timing plays an important part in learning to trust God. By seeing God's faithfulness over and over, we let go of trusting ourselves, and gradually we place our trust in Him. We learn to trust God by going through many experiences that require trust. Every change I've gone through has made me more mature, solid and well-grounded. It is not nearly as emotionally exciting.and yet it is better. My relationship with God is so much different now than it was in the early days of my Christian experience. Even our relationship with God involves progressive changes. But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be perfectly and fully developed, lacking in nothing ( James 1:4).Īs we develop patience, the Bible says we finally feel completely satisfied-lacking nothing. It's developed only under trial, so we must not run from difficult situations. Patience is a fruit of the Spirit (see Galatians 5:22). It takes practice, but as we let God help us in each situation, we develop patience, which is one of the most important Christian virtues. The question is, are we going to wait the wrong or right way? If we wait the wrong way, we'll be miserable but if we decide to wait God's way, we can become patient and enjoy the wait. But the truth is, waiting is a given-we are going to wait. Many people want change, but they don't want to go through the waiting process. We spend a lot of time in our lives waiting because change is a process. Why? Because He uses times of waiting to stretch our faith in Him and to bring about change and growth in our lives. We often say God is never late, but generally He isn't early either. Trusting God often requires not knowing how God is going to accomplish what needs to be done and not knowing when He will do it. But when you're willing to say, "God, I can't figure this out, so I'm going to trust You to give me revelation that will set me free," then you can be comfortable in spite of not knowing. It's difficult to exercise discernment if you're always trying to figure everything out. God wants us to live by discernment-revelation knowledge, not head knowledge. We prove that we trust God when we refuse to worry. I finally learned to trust the One who knows all things and accept that some questions may never be answered. God had to teach me to leave things alone and quit feeling that I needed to know everything. I spent a large part of my life being impatient, frustrated and disappointed because there were things I didn't know. Sometimes knowing everything can be uncomfortable and can even hurt you. The tendency to want to know about everything that's going on can be detrimental to your Christian walk. If your mind feels worn out all the time, you're not trusting God. If you're missing joy and peace, you're not trusting God. When it doesn't happen that way, we are tempted to ask, "When, God, when?" Most of us need to grow in the area of trusting God instead of focusing on the "when" question. We all want good things to happen in our lives, but too often we want it now.not later.
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