LIFE VERSES: Isaiah 60:22 (2021)

If you’ve listened to one episode of Hey Y’all: The Podcast or read more than about three posts on this blog, then you’ll know that I am not a patient person. My mother joked that I was born over a month early because I got tired of waiting, took matters into my own hands and have been trying to do the same ever since. So naturally, most of my life and especially my spiritual lessons have seemed to involve waiting. The Lord has taught me some of His greatest lessons through my times of delay or what felt like delay to me. 

After the hot mess of 2020, I was all ears for anything the Lord wanted to teach me in 2021 and I realized that He had begun changing my heart focus from being created for a purpose which I had no issue believing at that point, to waiting on His timing. Like actually waiting, not saying I’m waiting while trying to find a way to circumnavigate the process. So, as I began to see Isaiah 60:22b EVERYWHERE in my life, I couldn’t help but notice. 

If you’ve listened to any of our episodes on our words of the year, then you’ll know I sit up and pay attention when I start to see the same topics, verses, words and prayers throughout my life. You can’t tell me that it's a coincidence. Nope the Lord is trying to get my attention and now that I’m not so hard headed as I once was, He normally gets it quite quickly but in 2020, I was overwhelmed by life so it took a while to get through. 

I had grown frustrated with a number of things, not least the whole global pandemic. I was beginning to have health issues, my housing situation was questionable for reasons that were out of my control, I was single as a pringle and still frustrated by that, plus the list could go on and on. I had had my famous “Less Bitter, More Glitter” moment a few years earlier and had grown in my walk with the Father. I felt healthier and happier in who I was and believed in His promises for me BUT I wanted those promises now. Like, I kind of figured it out so I wanted to skip ahead to the good parts. 

God doesn’t work like that and THANK GOODNESS He doesn’t give in to our bellyaching! So, I became bombarded with another promise of sorts…

“When the time is right, I, the Lord, will make it happen.” 

He hadn’t forgotten me. Nor was I behind. His timing was perfect even when I wanted to rush ahead and snatch the goodness. Snatched goodness isn’t goodness at all but a disaster waiting to happen. He lovingly reminded me in tiny ways throughout the year of what I had gained by waiting for other things that I had craved earlier and He was right, of course. 

It doesn’t make me want the goodness any less nor does it make the emotional side of waiting any easier but He has promised to fulfill His plans at the right time. Not a minute before or after which is something I can rest in when none of it makes sense or when it feels like I’m stuck. 

I’ve learned to ask the Lord to show me my next step… just one and to show me if I’m being obedient. If I am and I’m in His will then I can rest assured that regardless of feelings His promises are coming just on time.