Grow Up!
So I figure, I've been thinking about some things lately...like my age. I'm young, yeah but then I think 20's. The transition decade. I mean some time later marriage is on almost everyone's mind if not now. And I think of myself...where I am right now...and I remember telling someone yesterday, that I actually don't feel mature enough...like maybe when I get to "that point" I will be ready for a bunch of things. I feel like there's stuff that I have to change in my life before I get there...
Well, it's very consoling to know that I'm not alone. And I don't have to wait until I feel like I'm ready till stuff happens, I have to wait till God tells me I'm ready. After all if God tells me I'm ready He'll give me the strength to work through it. Part of a devotion I read this afternoon said:
Many Christians spend most of their lives waiting to see themselves change before they will believe anything positive about themselves. But the good news is that God sees our hearts. We have a desire to do what is right because He has given us a new heart and put His Spirit within us.
When we start believing what the Word says about us more than what we see or do, then our behavior begins to radically and rapidly change.
Well, in all honesty the devotion was about holiness...but it made me think about other things too. As a woman...and what makes me a woman and what doesn't. And what makes me ready for marriage and what doesn't. The truth is, there is always some element of some experience that makes one mature or not. However, thank God that He can help me become experienced where I need to become experienced...He can help me grow. In managing my finances, my time, taking care of myself amidst life seeming like I have a million things to do...He can help me grow in all these things that seem to be a part of being mature.
And like He says in John 15
1I AM the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.
2Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit [that stops bearing] He cuts away (trims off, takes away); and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit.
...all I have to do is remain in Him. So maybe I shouldn't sit around waiting till everything is right. I can ask God. I can let Him whisper: Girl you need to save that money...or clean up...whatever it is about just learning to be responsible for who I am and for my actions. There is common sense involved but thank God there's also spiritual sense which sees beyond what I see. Spiritual sense that defines who I am and where I am. No formulas but just God telling me that He knows me by name, He has a plan for me and He will help me be all that I need to be. As a student, as a sister, as a daughter, as a friend, as a wife, as a doctor...whatever. He knows what I need to be when I need to be. I just have to trust Him, ask Him for help, remain in Him and learn from my mistakes...
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Absolutely on point
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