Being chronically sick or disabled or whatever you want to call it is very different than living a life as a healthy person. There are things you can and can't do and that usually determine how your day plays out. You tend to be around less people. You may not be working. You physically do less. And you may also mentally do less. So if God were to heal you in an instant, are you ready?
Then today, unconnected to this former thought, I was thinking, wow I have read a lot of books. Like a LOT. I would say probably 95% of them are Christian books... learning about Jesus, about Christian living, about evangelism, about Christian singleness as well as relationship, about life's questions partnered with God's answers. Reading the Bible and then reading it again. I really have read a lot.
So then after that, those two thoughts became connected. Will I be ready if God chose to answer those prayers and heal me? Of course I would. Because God is preparing me right now. God is giving me this time to rest, read and reflect, building me into the person He needs me to be. The desire of my heart is to get into ministry. Maybe it will continue to be in writing, through this blog or eventually through that book everyone keeps telling me to write. Or maybe it will be in an even larger capacity. Maybe God will use me in a way I have only dreamed of.
But for now, I will grow where He has planted me.
Where are you right now? Have you ever considered it as where God wants you to be? Have you decided instead of looking at it as a burden, to look at it as a blessing? That God has placed you there for a reason to help you grow, to prepare you for the next phase of your life? Will you be ready?
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