what are you waiting for?

What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. -Ecclesiastes 3:9-11

I remember finding this verse in my junior year of high school when a lot of my friends were  graduating and moving on to college. I was frustrated with the fact that I was stuck back in high school and eager to move on to the next great adventure. With this verse I found peace in God’s timing. At that point I had no idea just how vital that peace would be in my life in the next few years and how many times I would have to learn that lesson over and over again.

Four years later, I find myself in that very same place. Seeing friends and family moving to the next step in life and preparing to make big moves and major life decisions, while I am still guaranteed another year at this fine institution that I love, most days anyway. My heart is beginning to get restless, longing for adventure outside of the brick walls of Godfrey Hall. But I must pay my dues. My time here at Clemson isn’t finished yet. God is making this experience wonderful and beautiful in its time, in the time HE has laid out for it.

In my most impatient circumstances, such as my search for an internship that should start in 3 weeks, I have to keep in mind that my walk with God is a process. He is making it beautiful on the time line he has laid out. Each circumstance,wonderful or heartbreaking is perfectly orchestrated by the one that has all my days written in his book. He is completely sovereign and I’m so glad it’s not up to me.

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