Patience is key as we wait for the unknown but long expected. When you are following, truly following, God you have laid everything on the line. I have ambitions, dreams, thoughts of what I hope to be and have. We all do! But our life is not our own. We were bought with a price. Following God means laying dormant, until He calls to awake exactly His will and in His timing.
Relationship´s should completely be grown in the soil of His creation. I read in the bible, ¨Oh daughters of jerusalem, a charge you! Do not awaken love until it so desires.¨ This meaning, do not by your own actions, thoughts, dreams and daydreams awaken your heart to wonder of love. This verse is directed to women, however, young men listen. Wisdom is on the table, have your fill and prosper.
We have a role to play while single. It is not to play the field, because this is not a game. We are not to impatiently fill ourselves with meaningless relationships until our time (His time) has come. No! This is a time for preparation and service alone to God.
Investing time, emotions, seclusion, and oneness into someone is not laying dormant. Leaving curiosity to wonder is far from waiting on Him. When they are on time and in season are they good. And only good then.
¨Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about him. But things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.¨
-Elisabeth Elliot, from ¨Passion and Purity¨
We are on a great ride with grand beauty for a destination. We know not but that we are in His hands. So we must wait patiently and not settle for a passing town of eye catching attractions.
I heard this one time, long in the past and it stuck with me. ¨The best comes to those who leave the choice up to Him.¨ I believe this with all my heart. Though, I am aware that remembering the quote is easier than putting it into action. I must still press on. It is true, whole, and pure.
Distraction will accompany your walk in the most pressured forms. However hard you are pressed remember that the reward is worth the walk. We all want to have the best and we never want to settle. The best is who God places in our hand and heart to walk with on this journey. Do not settle for what is at hand. Remember that keeping your love asleep is keeping your heart for your love. Blessing comes with sacrifice. Though the road may be hard...we must persevere.
¨Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one´s self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.¨
S.D. Gordon, ¨Quiet Talks on Prayer¨
Hold out for the Best!
May God bless you and keep you.
Sarah Jane
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This is the most proverbial thing I've ever seen come from your deep mind. I'll be rereading this over and over, lest I forget your wisdom or more crucially, lest I forget the subject matter.
ReplyDelete"Don't awaken love before its time" is the nucleus of this composition I believe. I had a conversation with a man of unusual wisdom once. He told me these things. He told me about where to take great care in my relationships, and where to hold back and why. The biggest thing I got from that conversation and from this is summed up in this sentence from your post: "This is a time for preparation and service alone to God."
That is indeed true. This is not a time to conform to what your 'relationshipee' would have you be. God has an intent for the type of man or woman He needs you to become and he needs no inhibitions by other significant relationships. The man or woman He needs to be determines even whether or not you are able to fit the role you must play as a part of that kind of relationship. You must become the man God created and submit to no one else's desires for you. If you've naively wandered into a "meaningless relationship" and you begin to mold yourself to fit who that person needs you to be only to find that it was nothing, then you've changed into an unintended persona that will be difficult to reverse.
I like also the piece from Elisabeth Elliot. She presents a requirement of purity that is painful to uphold. Silence. There is a time to say the things that are springing up inside you from your feelings, it isn't in the early bloom of a relationship. There are secrets to be shared and stories to be told and outlooks to be discussed and thoughts and words to be given, yes the right thing is to wait. Difficult job.
Difficult though that may be, remaining completely "dormant" is the most strenuous and focus-requiring of any requirement. Many times before you even realize it you've attempted an eruption. It's not a very concrete wrong, it's hard to tell even when you are trying to do it on your own. But what are concrete attempts to do things are your own are enumerated right here. Good show: "Investing time, emotions, seclusion, and oneness into someone is not laying dormant. Leaving curiosity to wonder is far from waiting an Him."
It's an all around, straight up hard thing to do, but it CAN be done. Seek God first. A wise man once said that he was pretty sure a wise man once said "You will never wish you did not obey God, but you will wish you had"
Anyways this was fantastic. Be patient and persevere. It's worth doing. Here's one reader trying his best. I loved this post it was excellent.
Still praying hard for you and the Marbuts and well you know, Ecuador, South America. Go, God, Go!
P.S. I most likely start taking a hit at my journal tomorrow, I've got a lot of telling to do inside it about my hopes and dreams of Ecuador so far. It should be good. Also gettin' shots and jazz like that. One step closer to the edge eh? Adios!
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