Trust The Timing

 

Welcome back to another blog! 

Thank you for joining me today. I had a completely different topic selected for todays post but this topic came to my mind and I decided to share this instead. Today I want to share something I have found a lot of us have either gone through in the past or are going through currently. It is trusting the timing of your life, specifically God's timing.  If you are not a believer, I urge you to stick this one out and read it to the end. I would love to hear your feedback on this topic. 

Before we start, I want to remind you of one thing. As a Christian, I believe that God has created each of us for a specific purpose. He chose the color of your eyes, the hair on your head, your laugh, your smile. Every inch of you was thoughtfully planned when He created us. He also wrote your life story from beginning to end. So here you are, this perfect little human that was given to your parents to live out your life on Earth. You grow up and things happen along the way. Will it be all sunshine and rainbows? Probably not. Does that mean God doesn't love you? Definitely not. You are His divine creation. God loves infinitely, there is no limit to His love for us. Afterall, we are His children. 

Fast forward, you're an adult. The world has it's benchmarks of when you should get married, when you should have kids, when you should have another kid. Trust me when I say, as a woman that has never been married and doesn't have kids of my own (meaning by birth) I have had my share of peoples opinions and questions on my life and most of them were people that had no business involving themselves in my personal life. So please be mindful of this when questioning other people's lives. Rant over. Remember the part where I said God wrote your story? This is a super important part of this. So hang on to that...

Let's run down some scenarios I have lived through:

I am in my late 20's and not married. GASP! 

I am in my 30's and not married AND don't have kids. DOUBLE GASP!!

Thoughts go through my mind: 

Did God forget me? 

Was I not good enough to be married? 

Was I not good enough to be a mother? 

Why did all of my friends get married? 

Why do they have kids? 

When was it going to be my turn?? 

An ongoing prayer in my adult life has been to live my life how God has called me to. I've been perfect at that. NOT!! It is a struggle, my friends! It is HARD to live how you're called to live. Especially if you're a lil spicy like I am. I got angry at God for leaving me out. I was frustrated with Him for not giving me what others had. For not giving me what I thought I always wanted. I was going to church, I was praying, I was on my Women's Ministry team, I spoke in church, on stage, with a microphone for crying out loud! I would be in tears during my prayer time begging Him to give me some glimmer of hope. I came across a devotional that said to surrender all to Him. To lay it out and give whatever it is: marriage, family, etc. on the table and let Him take it over. So I did just that. This was not easy. I found myself doing the "Hey God, It's me" check in's OFTEN. 

A lot of ugly crying later, He didn't only answer my prayers, He opened doors I never saw opening for myself. Doors that were not part of the plan I had for my life. You know why? Because it was His plan I needed to lean on, His plan and His timing. He never forgot me. He never left me out. He never skipped over me. He stripped away all that was never meant for me as He was building me into the woman I needed to be for the family I have today. To be the woman I am for Mr. Adela Told Me (Ps. that man is a saint! I am every bit of an alpha female and he loves me at my worst. I am a so difficult at times, I get on my own nerves. haha!) He was building me into the mom I am to the amazing human beings I am lucky enough to raise. All I had to do was trust His timing.

I write this to encourage you, I feel like someone out there needed to read this. No matter where you're at in life. Remember, He has a plan for you and it will unfold in His timing, not yours. If you are in your season of waiting, stay strong in prayer. Stay focused on His word and dive deep into your Bible. Be honest with God about your feelings, because guess what? He knows what you're thinking anyway! Most importantly, surrender. Give it to Him and see what He blesses you with. It will blow your mind. Just like it blows mine every time I look at my beautiful family. 

That is all I have today. I hope you all enjoyed this post. I would love to hear your feedback so if you've made it to this post, please share your thoughts in the comments.

Until next time...

Xoxo,

Adela