Saturday, November 6, 2010

Waiting... For What?

I feel so run-down lately. So many expectations are being put upon me now that I am 18 and a senior in high school. There are the normal ones I've been used to for years - get good grades, keep my room clean, do my chores - but now there are a lot more, ones I'm not truly prepared for. Like, choosing a college, applying, applying for scholarships, worrying about how to pay for college, figuring out what I want to major in, taxes, social security, budgeting my own money, scheduling my own dentist appointments!?! I don't feel at all ready to take on these large responsibilities, yet I am having them thrust upon me, while still having to deal with the normal stress and drama of being a teenager in high school.
I feel so lost in this chaos... What do I do?
I am left with one answer - Draw closer to God.
So this is what I try to do. As life gets crazier I desire to draw myself ever closer to my Savior. He is the only one who can sustain me through the storms of life. I don't know what I would do without Him.
Within that desire, I feel a sense of waiting, of anticipation. I feel something coming. I know God has something significant in store for me, soon. I don't know what, how, or when, but I know there is something.
Beyond this, I have a desire in my heart. I long to be united with the man God has planned to be my husband someday, the man God has chosen to be my life partner. Yet I have a sense that that this is not yet to be. God is telling me to wait. This makes my heart ache, but if God can better use me right now as I am, then who am I to argue? So I will wait on God's timing.
God is so faithful, and I am so... not.
I fall away from Him so easily, despite my deep desire to draw close to Him. It's just too easy to fall into the mind-numbing daily routine, and forget to spend time with Him or read the Bible. So easy to forget such an important thing.
I pray that God revives in me an even deeper, greater desire to truly know Him and spend time with him every day.

Touch my lips, that they would speak Your truth,
My ears, to hear Your voice,
My feet, that they would dance for You,
My spirit to rejoice,


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