God's the better Author

Just Give it Time - Jon McLaughlin

Still waters, heavy hearts
Plans we make all fall apart
Disillusioned and lost in the gray
How can we fix the heart when it breaks?
Don't know how much more you can take

Just give it time
It's gonna get better
Now is not forever at all
Just give it time
Everything changes
Tomorrow comes today will be gone
Everything's gonna be fine
Just give it time, give it time

Quiet landslide when nobody knows
Regretted decisions that nobody chose
Under water and sinking fast
No way out, no way to get back
What might have been is lost in the past

When the world you're in is still again
And it all fades out
You've reached the end, begin again now


So, this song was God's response to my impatience. He told me to wait once, but like a typical human, I still would naturally want to follow my own ideas rather than His. I've probably learned this lesson one thousand times over, that God's plan is better than my own. It's the reason I'm at Lee, it's the reason I know what I am supposed to do now, it's the reason that I am who I am.

But I don't get excited and I don't jump to conclusions. I wait. That's how I do things... but this time, it's different. I want to write the story, but I have to remember that God is the better author. He wrote creation, and He will write the story I long to live. It will be beautiful, and it will be His, and it will be mine, and it will be ours. And while I might be able to write a story worth hearing, it would not be original, because only God has that kind of ridiculous creativity. Where mine would just be drawn from other's, His is uniquely written for me, for us.

Okay God, You write the masterpiece. Let it bring glory to Your name, and never mine. I thank you for writing me into it, and it romances me that You would make me a main character. You, the Grand Author, and I, Your creation to mold and shape and develop as the story unfolds. I am waiting, God... for that part when my story collides with another. For that "Part 3" or "Part 5" or whatever it should be called. But I will embrace the story that is currently being told, while I wait to hear what You have written for later.