Recently I was driving to work while surrounded by the many Ohio cornfields. It’s almost fall here in Ohio and even though we’re experiencing a week of 95-degree weather every day, you can almost smell it on the air of how fleeting these warm days are. You can sense the cool mornings and warmer afternoons on the horizon if you go slow enough. The corn and other crops are almost ready to be harvested. Commuters will soon see fewer orange construction cones and more green combines.
During this drive, I was thinking of a friend who recently shared a journey that involved her child. While I was grateful for her words and the victory she was sharing about, I was both thankful and convicted for her worship of the God who allowed her this victory.
It led me to reflect and think back to my own worship of the same God that I claim to believe in.
How often do I only glorify him when his will aligns with my own? When the thing I want to happen, actually does?
But what if it doesn’t?
What if I never see the breakthrough? What if I never see the finish line or fruit of my labor? What if it never happens to me? No matter how much effort, zeal, or prayers I put into it? What if just never happens?
Would I still have the same worship song in my heart? One that is coated and covered with gratitude and love for Him? The same as my friend who is so excited to brag about what he did for her made me think… Do I ever brag about what he didn’t do for me? With the same zeal, passion, and love for him as she did because he did? How do I worship when he chooses not to heal? When he chooses to not give me my heart’s desires? When the answer is simple, and yet startling, no?
Does Heaven rule in my life when I only get what I want or does it rule simply because it does?
Thank you for these words! It is so true and always leads us closer to Him. That’s if we allow it, right!? By keeping our hearts soft, by doing the next right and faithful thing, and by focusing our thoughts on Him, He is faithful, even when what we want doesn’t happen.