Your Place in Line
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What if you knew where you stood in line with God?
Not the full plan, or every detail… just a number in line.
Whether its to meet the love of your life, to get married, pregnant, or cross into heaven. What would you do?
Be honest - would you slow down and trust God, or would you start rushing to get to said destination faster?
I feel like most of us would rush to speed things up. We would start counting, analyzing, and trying to control every interaction and encounter to get to our number. Each encounter would lose meaning, it would just become a number - a count down. And if they weren’t the number we were seeking, we would most likely dismiss them too quickly, or force something that was never meant to be, just to check off a number to get to the next.
But thats God’s timing for you - it doesn’t happen on our timeline or from our sense of urgency.
Every person, connection, encounter, place, and moment in time has a purpose in our lives…not just the desired destination.
What if number 3 was sent to you, to teach you boundaries? What if number 5 was sent to mentor you in business to grow your career and add stability? What if number 9 was sent to prepare your heart for number 10 that no one else could?
If we rush through the line and try skipping ahead, we risk missing the life lessons that prepare us for who or what we have been praying for.
Instead of asking, ‘How far away am I?” The better question is…
“Am I being prepared properly for what is meant for me?”
When you finally encounter the destination you have been praying for - you will find peace, calmness, and understanding.
You won’t need to force it, rush it, or question it.
[You will be ready on God’s timing.
And it will be ready for you.]
I’d like to share a verse that is near and dear to my heart. I reference it any time I need a gentle reminder to slow down and trust the Lord Almighty has a plan for me.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding. In all the ways, acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”(Proverbs 3:5-6)
It is unfortunate that we make up scenarios in our minds. We don’t mean to, but the mind is a powerful thing.
The need to figure out where we are at in God’s line is because we are trying to control and we are leaning on our own understanding.
Trying to predict
Trying to control
Trying to get to number 10 quicker
But God never asked us to figure it out - He asked us to trust Him and lean on Him.
“…In all the ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths.”
Not rush your paths
Not skip steps
Not manipulate encounters
DIRECT them
Every person you meet. Every delay, every lesson, is already a fundamental part of His direction.
Pause. Breathe. Pray. Trust.
Grace in the Gap
