It is 7:40 on Saturday morning and everyone is still sleeping. This is the advantage to all the kids approaching and fully being in the teenager years. I am using this quite time to write because my goal is once a day and I have no idea how the day will play out. Using my time wisely is something I am working on and this seems to be a good start. This is day 2 of 30 days of writing.

Today I am going to write about a story that happened a good 10 years ago. You need to first know that I call myself The Queen of an analogy. They pop in my head multiple times a week and if I get stuck on what something means in the bible I am always asking the Lord to teach me in an analogy. I am a visual learner and this helps big time.

Picture this – 5 kids in the van and everyone piles out except one child going on one side of the van and me….the mom….carrying a carseat and a diaper bag and trying to gather the forgotten items the others left and the rushed inside, on the other side of the van.

Ok. Do you have the visual?

Great. So here is how it played out. The one child was at the other door of the van frantically looking for her flip flop and I was at the passenger door trying to pick up the baby’s blanket. The conversation went like this.

“Where is my flip flop?”-child

“Please hand me the blanket”-mom

“I can’t find my shoe?”-child

“Ok, but hand me the blanket first so I can be done”-mom

“I CAN’T FIND MY SHOE, I NEED TO LOOK FOR MY FLIP FLOP”-child

“If you do not hand me that blanket you will be grounded for the rest of eternity. HAND……ME……THE …….BLANKET”-mom

Child picks up blanket and hands it to me and with shock finds her flip flop. Immediately I thought of how this is so like our relationship with God. We want him to fix something now, do something now, heal this now, etc, etc. and sometimes He is like ok, “Follow me first, faithfully tithe first, trust me first.”  We are all like – DUDE, JESUS WHERE THE HECK IS MY JOB, MY SPOUSE , MY BABY, MY MONEY?”  and Jesus is like Hand me your heart first, hand me your life first. The rest will follow in due time but all in the right time.

 

 

 

God is always a good God. His timing is always perfect. We don’t always agree with this truth but that doesn’t change it from being TRUTH. We, as parents, know that our kids can’t have snacks right before dinner because it will ruin their appetite, we know that we need to set aside money because of future bills, we usually see the bigger picture and plan for it even if in the moment it doesn’t make sense. God doesn’t just see the big picture, He sees the finished picture and though at times His ways seem to be moving in a completely opposite direction, they are in fact perfect. His moves are perfect for our individual lives and seasons. Trust him, the only other option is to just trust yourself and though you may think you see the big picture you can never fully see the finished picture and you need someone who can do that and direct you to the end.