Dusk Til Dawn: The Waiting — Friday
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. (NIV)
“Maybe someday,” I shrugged with a grin.
I didn’t give it much thought—but then again, as a twenty-one-year-old, I spent very little time using my brain. Why settle down when there are SO many women out there? “Playing the field” or “sowing wild oats,” as I called it.
“Maybe one day,” I said hopefully, around age twenty-five. God had restored what the locusts had eaten. I was still single, but a very different kind of single. My heart belonged to Him, and I was now only interested in girls who loved Jesus more than they loved me. Maybe that new girl at the church plant would be the one. Maybe…
“Maybe not,” I cried bitterly, slamming the car door. It started to rain as I drove out of the city. I was leaving Nashville the same way that I’d found it seven years earlier: no wife, and no plan. I’d given up hope of having either. If I hadn’t found her here… maybe she wasn’t out there after all. God had been so good to me. A great career, great friends—even the chance to serve His Church. But twenty-eight seemed like the marriage opportunity had come and passed. Maybe it had.
“I’m never going to find her, am I God?” I finally resolved. I was at peace with that, I just needed to know.
“Maybe someday…” was all He would say.
There was an open seat next to her that Saturday morning, and for whatever reason, I took it.
Maybe it was how pretty she looked. Maybe I thought she might want someone to talk to. Or maybe, just maybe—God knew she was the one I was supposed to have by my side forever. The one I’d been waiting for. That’s how it felt.
Over the past year, the young woman who edits these devotionals has been a good sport when people have asked, “Connor, WHEN are you going to put a ring on it already?!” She’s even been a good sport when I’ve told those same people, “That’s none of your business.”
But yesterday, I finally asked her if she wanted to spend the rest of her days beside me, because nothing in this world would make me happier. And praise God, she said yes.
Some things are absolutely worth waiting for. The right girl is one—God’s timing is another.
Friday’s Reflection
Join me today in thanking God for the people and things in your life that were worth waiting for, and let it remind you that His character and His timing is always worth trusting.
