Why Can’t I Just Get What I Want, When I Want It?...
Psalm 84:11 (Amplified Bible)
11For the Lord God is a Sun and Shield; the Lord bestows [present] grace and favor and [future] glory (honor, splendor, and heavenly bliss)! No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
My daughter and I were having a conversation tonight, not unlike ones we have had on subsequent nights, recently. She is 17 years old, and wants to date, but it seems to her that guys are not attracted to her. She was venting, ranting and even raving about her plight. I always remind her that there is a season for all things. She told me tonight as she had previously that she was tired of hearing about seasons. As she looks around it seems as if all her friends and associates are hooked up with someone and she isn’t. She said it can’t be about the flesh issue, I said in a way it is. I told her she did not carry herself as if she was giving away anything, for free and often “the waiting,” is an issue not on a young mans agenda. I also reminded her of the prayers that have been prayed on her behalf and how we had asked God for the right person for her and her brother in the right season, I gently reminded her God knows what He is doing and what she needs in every season of her life. Out of sheer frustration, she looks me straight in the eyes and says “mommy why can’t God just hurry up and give me what I want.” I wanted to laugh, because it was a bit like a tantrum of a younger child, but I knew better than to appease my amusement. But the other side of me understood full well the frustration of not understanding why God was making you wait, that part of me wanted to hold her and reassure her I understood better than she knew.
How many times in our lives do we want, desire or even sometimes need something and it is no where in sight? It seems that everyone else around us has it, but we just can not seem to get it. It seems to elude our grasp on a regular basis. We become discouraged and frustrated, wanting to fire God from His job of ruler, creator and God of the universe, because we are sure that he has fallen asleep on the job, or maybe has just plain lost His mind. Doesn’t He hear us down here crying out to Him; doesn’t He see how miserable this unmet desire is making us? Things like this often makes you want to go up there and just shake Him and ask Him, “What are you doing?” The Bible reminds us in Isaiah 55:8, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord.” What we think should be a part of our lives may not be the will of God in this particular season or time in our lives. Some times God is trying to prepare us to receive what He has for us, other times it may be if God gave us what we were asking we would cease to serve Him, other times it would become a distraction, or it could be any number of other reasons. We have to learn that God really does know what is best for us. We often tell the Lord that we trust Him, if we really did, we would stop complaining about what we do not have and know that God is our heavenly Father and that He loves us so much that there are times when He needs to deny us things that may be harmful to us at this particular juncture. Trust often means releasing control and allowing someone else to orchestrate our situation, (in this case it is God).
Today is a perfect day to realize that God never withholds any good thing from us, but He does determine the timing or season of when things come and when they leave. But that is what God does he is the determining factor, He is the one that should be able to say yes, no or wait and we should trust Him enough to adhere to whatever He is saying to us in the season that we are in. Understanding that God does love and care for us, He cares about what is happening to us, even when it is us that is happening…“Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.6In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.”(Proverbs 3:5-6)
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