Listen, and Wait on God

I've just recently realized what life is all about. It took me 26 years and becoming a new Christian to figure it out. When I was a teenager, I remember having these perfect plans for my future, plans that I was very optimistic about. I wanted to make my "dreams" come true. Life seems to have a lot of unexpected turns, doesn't it? Most of the time life doesn't turn out the way we planned. Ever since I was a little girl I just knew in my heart that I was made for a reason, that I was made to do something special someday. I realized that everyone on the earth is given special gifts, but not everyone realizes what those gifts are. I also realized that you don't have to be someone famous, or be someone with a super career to make a difference in the world. When I would feel like a failure because of the things in my life that I could have done, or should have done, I try to think about the accomplishments I have made, and the lessons I have learned in the life that is "real" and "now". I know now that God creates everyone with a special gift to be used for His glory. It's whether or not you listen and hear God, to figure out what the gift is. God knows us before we are even born, He writes out the book of our lives for us. Psalm 139: 13-16 says " For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. That is really awesome to know that everyone is a "somebody", everyone was made for a special reason, and with that He will be glorified. If you feel depressed and you just don't understand what on earth you are here for, just remember that everyone is a child of God, and you were created for a reason. It took me a lot of crying, suffering, pain, and unhappiness to realize that I couldn't do it myself, I couldn't make myself happy, only God can. It took me changing a lot of things in my life, and trusting in God to lead me, to actually figure this out. We need to trust in God, pray to God, and be patient enough to wait on Him. Everything may be crazy and hectic around me in my life, and not how I ever planned it would be, but I finally feel peace inside me knowing that God is working, right this very second He is working on the plans He has for me and my family. He is also working on yours too.

Just have faith, and caring family and friends around you in times of need. When you feel like everything is going wrong, that means He is working right now to make things right. If it wasn't for my family and the Christian friends God put in my life, I don't know what I'd be doing right now. When you hear the phrase " that must have happened for a reason" it's true, the reason is to get you closer to God and to His plan for you. Everyone has had a time in life that was painful, and sometimes people wonder why God would let that happen, some people turn away from God and resent Him, but everything that we go through in our lives, good or bad, happens so that God can teach us, or so we may be able to help others in return. Painful things that happen to us in our lives actually make us stronger in the end. I've learned firsthand about growing stronger in life. Having a baby and getting married at the age of 18 made me have to grow up really quick, giving birth to a baby with pierre robin syndrome and almost loosing her 3 times has given me faith I've never had before, and being saved at 25 years old and having that feeling of being born again, the renewing of my life and soul, has changed my life and way of thinking completely. It's amazing how He works, it's actually spectacular! Thinking back at my life now, I wouldn't want it any other way.

Are you listening to Him and letting Him guide your path day by day? You can't physically see Him, but if you concentrate and really look around, you can see Him everywhere.

Follower of Jesus,

Stephany Wagner