This post is going to go two ways. Have you ever noticed in life that when you are doing something, anything, people will say “Wait Until”.
Like for instance, you are single and people always say wait until you are married. Then you get married and things are great, then people say wait until you have been together 5 years. Then you hit 5 years and people say wait until you get to 10-15 years and so on. Or people say wait until you have kids. Then you have them and they say wait until they are 2 years old. Then it’s wait until they are a teen.
It’s like people want things to be bad for you. I will never understand that part. I know people are trying to warn you but sometimes it can be very negative and if you are not careful, you will allow their wait until to creep into your mind and then it becomes your reality not God’s reality.
The wait until is especially true with kids. It’s like you have your plans and yes you can’t plan everything but you have to have some kind of plan and people just have to tell you how that plan will never work.
One thing we have realized is that if you don’t plan at all you will fall into the trap of allowing everything to happen. In life you can’t do that. Yes planning is good and yes plans fail but you still have to be proactive and create plans because you don’t want to live in just existence.
The other side of the coin is when you say “Wait Until”. For instance, you may say wait until I get out of school, then I will do this. Or wait until all of our finances are just right then we will have that baby. Or wait until I retire, then we will do ______. Or wait until I find that right job then I will get out of debt.
What happens when your wait until becomes 10 years?Then 20? Then 40? What then? All your life you have lived in the wait until while you allowed life to just slip through your hands. Don’t allow this to happen to you. There are many people who wish they would have instead of saying wait until.
Life is already too short anyway so don’t allow another minute to go by without following God’s vision for your life. Don’t allow what others say to stop you in the hunt in your purpose. They aren’t going where you are going. Only you and your spouse can decide where God is leading you. They aren’t God even though they try to be over your life.
If you have kids, then you really can’t allow your wait until to take place or your kids will follow in the same footsteps. You have to be the example for your kids. If you aren’t willing to lead and follow your vision then your kids probably won’t either but if they see you following your vision from God and they see you fall then get back up and go forward in faith again then they too will realize that they can follow whatever vision that God puts in their heart.
Now if you have many wait untils then start now and change the direction in your life. Don’t go another minute before you take your life to Christ and rededicate it to him. Allow Christ to replace your heart so that you can see God’s vision for your life. You never want to follow just any vision but God’s vision for you.
Remember though, never allow who you think you are to stop you from becoming who God called you to become. Now go out and change the world by changing your heart so you can change your world first!
Be Inspired or Be Left Behind!
Chris Benton