Inside The Circle, Part One
August 28th, 2010Over the last few weeks, my dad has been going through Psalms 37 with us. I thought I knew the verses, especially verses 4-5, like the back of my hand. It’s the ones every girl pulls out when she’s discouraged or longing for whatever dreams she has.
Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
But through this devotion, I’ve learned some things that for some reason never struck me before. It’s one of those things that are so obvious and yet it’s never really hit me before. So over the next few weeks, I’m going to try and share it.
Anyway. Dad used the illustration of a big green field, and in that big green field is a circle. And in the middle of that circle is you. God has placed you in that circle, and everything He wants for you to have is in that circle with you. Sometimes there seems to be things outside of that circle that if we could only just step out of the circle, we could reach. But God wants us to wait inside that circle, so that when those things are brought into the circle by Him, we know that it’s by his doing and not ours, that He was the one that made it happen, not us.
I’m sure everyone has something like that in their life, whether it’s marriage or dreams or choices for the future or getting a job or wanting to go from point A to point B, if only you knew what point B was or whatever, where sometimes it seems like you’re stuck and the solution to that desire seems so close if you could just barely step past that line, past that circle. But then even if you achieved that dream and got that desire, would you be stuck your whole life wondering if you did this and not God? How much better to submit to His boundaries that He has placed around you and let Him bring it in His timing? Because then it’ll be perfect. Not as in you’ll never have another problem, but you won’t have to make it work, conform your desires and standards to make that solution work. God has a totally perfect plan and will bring it in your circle in His totally perfect time.
At Jasmine Baucham’s blog, she recently said something that struck me profoundly.
Our faith is never so tested -our reliance to the Lord never so strengthened -our weakness never so magnified -as when we are called to wait upon the Lord’s perfect timing, and to obey despite the outcome as we watch his sovereign plan unfold.
And no, I’m not talking about marriage here, because I know that’s what everyone’s probably assuming from the view I’ve had since I started the blog. But I’ve realized that marriage is not the ultimate goal, that the choice is not just about marriage, and that waiting on the Lord for your desires means all desires. I hope I’m making sense. I’ve realized that I considered marriage the ultimate point, the great achievement. Nothing really matters until then, and nothing really matters after then. I realized that I was missing out on being a part of my family, of preparing for my future (a future that…gasp…may not include marriage for a long time (if ever)) by fretting over that. That is not the point of the post, but I just wanted to address that. I’m not talking about “waiting on the Lord for marriage”. I’m talking waiting on the Lord for everything.
There’s so much more swirling in my head right now. This devotion has opened a huge train of thought that I’m sorting through and figuring out and hopefully will share over the next few weeks. I guess this is just a sampling as I’m trying to get my thoughts together. 
See you later…
Bible, Family, Godly Womanhood, Stay at Home Daughters, Waiting 
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