Why me?

I have found through college and varying levels of figuring out what I want to do with my life that waiting…is hard. I really hate it. But aside from school it’s even more difficult waiting for answers from God. Ever feel like you pray and ask God different things, but don’t ever feel like you get an answer? Or even just not the answer you were hoping for? (commence embarrassed laugh because that’s me)

I have often found myself asking God, why. Why didn’t I get into that school, or why do I have to do this or that, or in the past why the heck storms (more like hurricanes) came flying at me all at once. Similarly to Job I wanted answers, but more often than not I got zip. Notta. Nothin. That’s when I learned this little acronym of why. We need to wait, hope and yield.

As I said before, waiting sucks. In the end when God finally spoke to Job, he still didn’t give him an answer. In doing so, he showed Job that sometimes it’s better to let God handle the answers and we just roll with the punches. That's the same for us. God knows what's going on, he knows far better than I do what to do, so I'm going to let him handle it.

That’s why it’s important to hope. When we remember that God loves us, and has a great plan for our lives, and that he has more powerful than ourselves in any situation that we may encounter, we can have hope. Hope is putting our trust in God, even when we don’t know what’s going on and knowing that we may never find out why some things happen.

To yield, means that you are willing to do whatever God wants. It means we will wait and we will hope and put our trust in God, because he is God. Knowing God is better than knowing all the answers.

Instead of asking why... why... why, maybe next time you'll sit back and remember to wait, hope and yield on God. I'll try to remember too, I promise.