May 8

I love to book my vacations way in advance. I like to have the reservations made, timeline plotted, budget calculated and ministry covered months before I go anywhere. However, this year it seems to be a little different. Lora and I will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary and we don’t have a plan. In fact, we don’t even have a date that we will escape with each other, and we have no idea where we will end up or how much money it will cost. Why? Because at this point we have enough money to camp and that isn’t going to do it for my bride of 25 years. (My choice not hers). We are in a wait and see mode. We probably won’t know when or what until a week or two before it happens! That drives me crazy!

Two things popped out to me which are all about the same message – wait for the Lord and put your hope in Him. I hate to wait! I really like to know what will be going on in my future, it eases my mind. God however, is more concerned about renewing my mind than easing it. In fact, in this renewal process, my mind will be eased without the external circumstances being “just right” because I will be waiting on the Lord. The only way to get “good” at waiting on the Lord is – yep, you guessed it – waiting. I don’t know what my future holds. There is as much uncertainty about certain things in my life as our 25 anniversary celebration, but I know one thing – I have no choice but to wait on God. So gladly I will do just that and watch His hand come through in magnificent ways! After all, He does love me more than I love myself.