I am Being Prepared .
Hebrews 10:35-38

Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised. "For yet a little while, and the coming one shall come and shall not tarry; but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

I’ve been in a mindset lately that would surprise many of my friends. Not because it’s so outlandish, but rather because it is so uncharacteristic of me. I’ve been waiting. I’ve been allowing God to work in me. More than that, my perspective is radically shifted from one of feeling tested, versus one of being prepared.

A couple of weeks ago we had a Saturday that was uncharacteristically warm. These are the random images as I drove down the street to the store on that Saturday afternoon: Soil tilled, dirt is black and clean and fresh, seed and lime, bulbs beginning to pop up, trees beginning to flower. These were wonderful reminders and heralds that spring is on the way. The winter is almost over. These signs provide a promise of what is to come.

These images, applied to my life, remind me that like the earth, I am being prepared. Not too long ago, I would have declared I was being tested. But God doesn’t test us! He loves us too much to harm or hurt us. He loves us so much, in fact that he works in our lives and our hearts and minds to prepare us for what is next.

I can’t honestly say I’m excited – because that’s challenging in the midst of the preparation – but I am ever hopeful, and confidently so. My husband and I have agreed that based upon our current state of preparation and tilling under and bursting forth, God certainly has something amazing in mind for us. That’s how we don’t throw away our confidence. That’s how we endure.

“For yet a little while, and the coming one shall come and shall not tarry;”

I am being prepared

My prayer today is that you rest in God, wait on him, and let him work in you, tilling under the old, dead parts of yourself, making provisions for what is yet to come. And that you keep the faith that yet a little while, and the coming one shall come.

Mary  ¶ 6:48 AM