Stay in your "Line"

Have you ever been in Wal-Mart and you are trying to checkout and every line is super long? Haha! That’s a silly question because I know you have!... They only keep two registers open. (Come on Wal-Mart - get it together!) 

Anyways, you pick a line and you are standing in it, waiting and you start to look around and now it seems like every line in the store is moving faster than the one your in… then, you begin to think I should have picked a different line. I know you’ve been there because I have. Just waiting. This is sometimes how I feel about life. I have picked a path and I am moving along great, then, I see people around me and their lives just seems to be perfect and all together. They just landed a job - they just had a baby - they just got married - they just got a promotion… And all of a sudden you are standing there just STUCK in your “line”. It starts to make you question the choices you have made and the journey God has you on. 

I don’t know about you but I get tired of waiting. Waiting on the line at Wal-Mart and waiting for my next step in life. 

I started thinking about Sarah in Bible. She waited a LONG time for God to fulfill his promises along the way. I see myself in Sarah. She tried so hard to make things happen on her own but it didn’t turn out the way she planned. That is so me! I get so tired of waiting that I try to take things into my own hands and I end up making things worse. I don’t want to be like that. I don’t want to be the girl who sees everyone else’s line moving faster, so I try to make mine do the same. It is hard sometimes to remember that God has you waiting for a reason. 

I am learning lately that waiting is something that we all do at different points in our lives. I have been praying lately that I stop comparing my “line” to someone else’s. I have a feeling there are others reading this that feel the same way. My prayer is that we all learn to enjoy the journey we are on while we wait. We don’t want to miss out on all the good things in life by worrying about the future. 

Next time you are in line waiting at Wal-Mart think about how good the Lord has been to you! And that we all have our own “lines” that the Lord designed just for us… And just think - if you weren’t waiting in line you wouldn’t have ended up with that Cookies 'n' Cream Hersey bar and wouldn’t that have been disappointing?! 

P.S. I am learning that staying in my “line” isn’t so bad. I always end up where I am supposed to be.