I do not like the cold weather and every year, especially during the winter season, I wish/dream of moving or at least migrating to a place with much sun and warmth; Florida I am looking at you.
Work, sadly not too many people can say that they truly enjoy their job and I would be listed among them. I have often wished I could move and go to culinary school and just go from there. Again, notice the moving. Much of my time spent living here has been spent wishing I was somewhere else. Alas, I am still here.
I have been separated for well over a year and I have learned to accept that and find contentment, yet still I can find myself wishing to be with someone and usually that includes being someplace else. Hmm, there seems to be a pattern with moving. Is there anything wrong with wishing for something else, something “better”? I didn’t think so. I figured it was fine to wish for things but in retrospect wishful thinking has robbed me of the here and now.
Last night (well last night from the time I am writing this) I opened up the Bible to spend some time with God. Normally I will just use my NKJV study Bible and that is what I started out reading but somewhere along the line I chose to get The Message and read from that. As usual I started one place and ended up somewhere completely different in the Word and where I ended up is where I needed to be. It was also necessary that I read in The Message as it would not have had the same impact. Here is the passage I read that really jumped off the pages and gave me a massive “Aha” moment. Ok actually it was more a God smacking me to get my attention.
1 Corinthians 7:17 (The Message)
And don’t be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God’s place for you. Live and obey and love and believe right there. God, not your marital status, defines your life. Don’t think I’m being harder on you than on the others. I give this same counsel in all the churches.
See? I figure I know what is best for me. I figured it is just mistakes of my past that have me stuck here and that God will move me where I want to be with who I want to be so that I can really start serving and worshiping God and really start doing the work He has for me.
“Where you are right now is God’s place for you”
It is not the place I would choose but come to think of it, it has been my choices that have me where I am at. I need to embrace where I am and give it all to God. Maybe He will move me one day and maybe he will bring an insanely godly woman into my life in the future but I need to not worry or be wishful of those things. I am here, God is here and this is where He has me for the time. He knows the future not me. He knows the plans He has for me, not me. I do have desires to want to wish for other things but that takes away from my worship of God now. Now is what we have, it is what I have and I need to embrace it full force and leave it all to Him.
