IF ... THEN ... I'll WAIT for His WHEN

If …

So I don’t know what’s happening in your lives right now but I’ve got several “what if’s” going on. For example when I look in the mirror I see a woman who’s getting older and older and good grief … what if I get so old and wrinkled that people think that I’m ugly and stop talking to me … or worse … start patronizing me. Ugh! Or for another example … what if these lesions on Larry’s brain are serious … like life threatening, like what if he dies? Then what in the world am I going to do? Emotionally? Financially? Socially?

What if my world falls apart? What if there are wars and rumors of wars? What if my family is killed? What if there is no place for me to live? What if there’s nothing for me to eat? What if God is not God? What if I can’t trust God?

Emotionally, mentally, when I go to the place where I’m wondering “what if” about anything, I’m toying with temptation; the temptation to believe the lie from the Garden of Eden, the lie that God is somehow holding out on me, the lie that God doesn’t really love me and doesn’t have my best interest in mind for me … He doesn’t even have an interest in me at all.

Soooo …

I have decided, I’m going to live like a believer,

Turn my back on the Deceiver, I’m going to live what I believe

IF life happens THEN I have decided that I will choose to believe that God is good and that He has plans for me, “plans to prosper me and not to harm me, plans to give me a hope and a future”. I have decided that I believe that God loves me and that anything that He allows in my life is for my good and that as I trust Him I will bring honor and glory to His name. I have decided to WAIT for God’s WHEN … to wait for Him to come and rescue me. It is my express desire to live my life in front of you in such a way that you will be attracted to my very gracious and loving Lord. God help me to be faithful to do that. I ask that if you see me wavering that you encourage me to be faithful to wait for God’s WHEN.