An Invitation to the One Who Loves God but is Struggling to Trust His Timing

You’ve prayed, fasted, sought counsel, and done everything you’re supposed to do, and yet you still feel as if you’re lacking in the ability to fully lay your worries down and trust in God’s perfect timing. Maybe you’re looking around, listening to all the advice given from loved ones, church leaders, and fellow followers of Christ declaring in the goodness of God’s timing, and how God brought them through these impossible situations that grew their trust in Jesus even more, and you want that too. Maybe you’re thinking “wow they sure did have a lot of faith. Why can’t I? What’s wrong with me? Do I not love God enough?”

Yet God, in His infinite wisdom and kindness is not comparing your efforts to trust Him with anyone else’s. He isn’t holding you up against your idea of the perfect Christian, demanding you just do better!

Maybe you’re suffering through loss, a diagnosis, the unknown, financial devastation, life changes or something else that you’re waiting on the Lord to move in. You’ve read the scriptures, you know what God’s word says about His perfect plan, but you still feel as if you’re burdened under the weight of your situation, desperate for even a small measure of comfort amidst such daunting times. God sees this, and His compassion and love for you is so vast and immeasurable that before you were even born He provided a way through this struggle. In fact, He saw the condition of the human heart as a whole, and its tendency towards fear and the unknown and sent us all a perfect provision. First, the breaking of Jesus’ body and shedding of His blood for our sins, giving us the ability to appropriate and apply God’s promises, become sealed in our heavenly inheritance, and operate under the law of grace…and then He sent His Holy Spirit to reside within us so at all times we would have access to The Comforter.

Not only are you not walking this struggle alone, as countless Christians around the world all utter the same question— “When, God?” But there is a sweetness found in this very struggle that God uses as an invitation to renew the mind and draw our trembling hearts nearer evermore to the loving arms of the Lord. God isn’t asking you to perfect yourself. In fact, God tells us the Holy Spirit is not only our comforter but acts as a teacher and causes us to be able to walk in God’s statutes and obey His commandments.

(John 14:26 and Ezekial 36:26-27)

Which means if God tells us to trust in His timing, and we’re struggling to do so, we can seek comfort in the revealing light of the Holy Spirit as He shows us the Heart of God, as well as ask the Holy Spirit to cause us and help us to trust in God’s perfect timing. The same spirit that was within Jesus, a man of suffering, of great compassion, lives within you so you may never walk this earth alone.

As you endeavor to go throughout your day, waiting on God’s perfect timing, remember that God never asked you to muster up the strength to perfect yourself, but to rely and lean on Him and His provisions so you may walk this road a more lightsome way with praise on your lips and joy despite the circumstance.