One of the hardest things to bear as a single woman is to see the man you have loved, hoped and believed will marry you, go off with another lady and they are planning to get married. It is like a mirage. It is painful and very difficult to accept.
You are curious to know why he prefered the other lady to you, but you cannot ask him. You take it all to God and demand an answer from Him. You have prayed that it should be this man, you have claimed God's promises concerning your life, you have been good friends, very kind and loving towards him. You were convinced the feelings were mutual, yet he has chosen somebody else instead of you.
God said to me, when in similar situation, "My daughter, you should have trusted Me, not him."
Waiting can be very draining, but for His grace, no waiting is pleasurable. We are tempted to take very seriously, every male friend that acquaints himself with us. We think ahead of them and assume we know where they are going. We appropriate these thoughts in our head and take them for God's will. With our mental cap on, we assume faith is at work, and so prepare ourselves for a future with the man. This is where our trust shifts.
Trusting God is looking unto Him, the Author and Finisher of our faith. What we do often is put ourselves as 'authors' and expect God to 'finish' it up. On some other instances, we allow God to 'author' our faith but we do not allow him to be the 'finisher'. Until the Lord becomes the author and finisher, we are bound to be bruised. Unfortunately, some of these wounds even though healed, may scar us for our entire life time.
One good example in the Bible was Abraham. God was the author of his faith when his wife was barren. But the good Lord took His precious time to finish it up. Father Abraham was tired of waiting, Sarah was tired of waiting. They both took over from God to 'finish' it up. Their action did not finish it up but started another struggle that we still live with today. God still came and finished what he promised in Isaac, but what happened in-between has its consequence on all mankind till date. It is indeed very essential to allow Jesus to finish whatever He has started.
The Bible says in Philippians 1:6 (MSG)
"There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears."
Are you feeling very low at the moment? God has not failed you. Your expectations based on what you see may have failed but not God. God's original plan for you is still very much in progress and is about to be completed. Will you trust Him still?
Age and body cycle is nothing in the hand of the creator. When He is ready to honour and glorify His name in your life, He will renew everything and quicken them too. I am so sure of this. He has not only done it in Abraham and Sarah, Zachariah and Elizabeth etc, He is still doing it in our days and you may have been divinely created for such astounding works of the Almighty father.
Job demonstrated the greatest faith that challenged me most when he said, inspite of everything that befell him "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him." Job 13:15a(NKJV) His trust and faith in God were not shaken despite being stripped of all .
My beloved sister, where are you at this present moment? Let the fire of trust between you and God be rekindled irrespective of the situation you may be confronted with. He is not unaware. He alone knows what to do. He has a purpose in mind. He is working it out. This current hardship and delay is incomparable to the glory that is about to be revealed in you.
I charge you with James 1:2-6(MSG) "Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colours. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.If you don't know what you're doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You'll get his help, and won't be condescended to when you ask for it. Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought"
Finally, "Oh! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope!" Romans 15:13(MSG)
Did you ask what 'should I do'? Yeah! Take a wash, freshen up, take a walk and sing to Jesus some love songs. How about that ???
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