I like to be in control. Why? Well, I don’t know about you but, I hate waiting. I’m quite fond of now. I want my dream job now (or at least to be well on my way to it), maturity now, wisdom now, Christ like character now, and the eye glasses I ordered last week, I want them yesterday.  My birthday is coming up and because I’m pro-now it’s just a little dreadful. I don’t know exactly what I was supposed to do before I turned 24 but, I know it included conquering the world. However, unfortunately or rather fortunately for me, God doesn’t work that way. God is pro-eternity. He is not only concerned with now but, with later.

God is in control and he truly is our only viable option. Even knowing that, it’s often hard to wait on God, to allow him to solve our problems, or to give us direction, answers or clarity and especially when there are consequences to endure when things don’t fall quickly into place. In these moments its easy for us to attempt to solve the problem ourselves or to move when we should be still. Maybe we even feel it’s our duty to but, our attempts to handle it on our own only prove to be busy work. They make us feel like we are doing something or getting somewhere but, they only take up time and energy.

We often get so consumed with now that we forget that our time here on earth is only the womb. It’s our time to grow and mature. Heaven is no retirement plan. It’s when we begin life.  Remember God’s first priority is to get you home with Him and to restore communion. He wants you to experience Him.   

"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it."

-Romans 8:18-25

Maybe like me, God has you in a spiritual time-out. A time out and away from distraction.  Let’s wait, silent and still until God says move.


Sydney is an independent artist and the Executive Director of Uprise. She is passionate about music and young adult ministry. Find her music at sydneyandpaige.com or www.facebook.com/sydneyandpaige

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