All The Things

I have no idea why people think I’m a patient person. I don’t think I am, and I don’t think God thinks I am either. I know this, because He is continually putting me in situations where I need to learn to be patient and wait on Him. As must of you know, I am currently in a long distance relationship and sometimes it’s hard to wait patiently until we are able to be together in person. It’s not hard to just wait, because I don’t want to be with anyone else, but waiting patiently has surely been a challenge. I want to hurry time up all the time. There are days when remembering that God works out all things for my good are easier, and there are days where this is extremely hard. Earlier this week Kyle encouraged me to read through Psalm 37. I must admit that I didn’t do so until this morning. With busyness, struggles and reading elsewhere in the Word I just forgot to read through it. However, this morning I got to work an hour early and felt the desire to just spend some time with my God. I remembered Kyle’s encouragement as I thought about him and how I hadn’t been able to talk to him due to his lack of Internet access the last few days. 

As I read through it, so many verses were encouraging and tugged at my heart but in particular there was Psalm 37: 7a- “Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him.” Every work day, I am blessed to deal with immigrant minors who are in a transitional period in their lives. During this period, they are often sad, desperate, and wanting to move on to the next stage in their lives. Everyday, God challenges me to sew His words into their hearts, to remind them that God will work all things out in His timing, and they will not be somewhere one day longer than He wishes, neither will they leave before His wills. I must remind them that this time period, like all moments in their lives, are meant to mold them and prepare them for the next moments in their lives, and to ultimately mold them into people that will bring Him glory. 

This is what I constantly remind them of when God moves me to encourage them. The very same thing that I am struggling with. I don’t understand many things in the same way they don’t, but God continues to be so graceful and merciful on me. Today, one of my students left. His transition period is over. This young man had been waiting for months (most only stay for a couple of weeks) and often grew desperate. Today, on any other normal day, all of a sudden his waiting time was over.  

I am continuing to  wait patiently on the Lord knowing that He is working all things out for my good and learning to embrace every moment of waiting as a blessing from God to bless and be blessed by others along the way. I’m learning that moments of waiting on one thing provides moments of opportunities in other ways.