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In His Hands

   When you get to be a certain age, you start seeing all your friends living out their adult lives around you. They get married, have children, buy a house, etc., and here you are with none of that even in the works. I see similar situations in the Kingdom. When we watch those around us living out their callings and being blessed while we are still waiting on God's timing to start the next phase in our life, it makes us question Him. "I have been faithful, Lord. Why are they being blessed and not me?"

    I just want to encourage those of you who have felt or are feeling this way-- God has not forgotten about you. His calling for your life is not any less important than for others. But we cannot understand why He does the things He does. Jesus' timing and reasoning is almost always beyond our comprehension. Sometimes we get a glimpse of what He was doing in hindsight, but we will never know exactly why and how He puts things together.

    That is where our faith comes in. Have faith in God's plan for your life specifically. Remember that He chose you before you were even born. Your name is engraved in the palm of His hand. He knows everything about you. You have not been forgotten! Trust that His plan is the best plan even though you can't always understand it. Stop comparing your life with the lives of those around you and leave it in His hands.

1 Corinthians 12:15 Now if the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. (NIV)

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. (ESV)

Isaiah 49:15-16 Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. (ESV)

Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart (NIV)

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