One of the hardest things to do in life is to choose to submit ourselves to the Lord’s will and to do it with faith and patience. When we experience joy in our lives it is easy to express gratitude and speak of how we know that He is mindful of us. But when life is difficult, when there is pain, loss, tragedy or loneliness we have to work a little harder to acknowledge that God is there, that He loves us and that our trials can help us grow.
We may reach a point in our faith where we pray and ask for things and with trust say “thy will be done”. This is good. This is a spiritual accomplishment that is not often easy. Recently I have realized that there are times when we need to go a step further and say “thy will be done, and in thine own time”. God’s ways are not our ways. He knows the beginning from the end and He knows what is best for us. He sees the bigger picture and desires to ultimately have us return to Him. We think we know what is best for us, but He knows better.
As we pray and wait we must submit ourselves truly to His will and to His timing, so deeply that we will wait a day, a month, years or even our whole lifetime to see our righteous desires fulfilled, if that is His will. We pray, we wait, we trust and we do not lose our faith that He has us in His hands.
