When Will It Get Better?

Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

Believe it or not, the question I get asked MOST often is "When Does Life Get Better?"  I hear this from people who are struggling with situations which are overwhelming or seem daunting or that they have been struggling with for a LONG time.  I get it!  I have had many a year being angry with God, Screaming out my prayers to Him even using the military vocabulary, Begging Him to make it better.  Yet, God seemed to remain silent.  It was as if He enjoyed seeing me struggle and fall over and over.  As a matter of fact, I would hang my head in complete exhaustion and ask God, "Can this possibly get any worse?"  And guess what?  The deceiver LOVES that challenge, because things got worse.

I was absolutely certain that God had decided I wasn't worth His time.  And then He proved me completely wrong.  Was it because things suddenly got better?  Nope!  Was it because things suddenly began to fall into place? Not a chance.  God proved me wrong by reminding me that sometimes His plans require waiting.  You see God is the one with the plan and He knows where all the components of His need to be for my part of His plan to move forward.   

When a baby is born, they cry when they're hungry, they cry when they're tired, they cry when they're soiled, they cry when they don't feel good...WHY?  Because they aren't ready to speak and tell us what's making them cry!  If babies could talk, not only would we be stunned, but it would take quite a lot out of the bonding process!  Think about it, if your newborn said, "Oh Mother, I'm feeling a tad peckish at present. Perhaps a bit of nourishment would just hit the spot"  what would your reaction be?  The truth is, we have to wait for them to develop enough to accommodate speech.  (Then we spend the next 18 years wondering when the talking will slow down.)

Look at the verse for today, Yet God has [already] made everything beautiful for its own time!  God's plans are ALREADY in place and in play.

Instead of wondering, perhaps we need to learn how to wait.