Isaiah 30:18
"Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him."
I was so blessed yesterday to receive this from my aunt's mom. She doesn't know me that well, but I guess she asks my mom how I am doing every once in a while and somehow the topic came up about waiting for the right guy to come along and how she had been in a similar position with friends all around her getting married, but not her. She said that during that time, this was a verse that she clung to.
I definitely tend to struggle with not being married. It isn't that I don't trust the Lord or that I think that He is holding out on me. My struggle tends to be that I long for what I was created for: to be a wife and a mom. For as long as I can remember, I have loved kids and could not wait until the day that I got to have kids of my own. I also have longed to be the helpmate to a man...my husband. That is not God's plan for me at this point in my life. To say that it is not something I struggle with would be a lie. It is a constant surrender to the Lord and trusting that He knows better than I do what is right for me and when. I love how He so deliberately gave me this verse on a day I didn't happen to be struggling. As if to give me the tools I would need WHEN I struggle. It is not an "if", but "when". I am so thankful that God is always looking out for us and preparing us for what lies ahead.
