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My mom and I traveled down from Wisconsin to Tennessee with friends of the family to pick up my brother and sister for the summer from college. I was 12 and felt pretty confidant in my coordination and balance. My brother and I would walk around the big circular wooden stock  tank and down the cement rails in the barn in front of the feed manger. We were always challenging each other to try something daring to test our balancing skills.

My brother was showing me around campus and where he ran cross country. I was impatient and wanted to get going faster. My brother said there was a long hill up ahead that keeps getting steeper as you go down. I looked ahead and thought it wasn’t anything I couldn’t handle. So I ran on ahead. I started down the long grade and kept picking up speed. I had thought I would be all right and could stop at any time. I couldn’t, I had ventured to far ahead and to fast.  Now I kept gaining speed until I fell head first in the gravel. Bruised and scraped up but nothing seriously hurt; I limped back to my older brother. “I told you not to run ahead” he said. “But you wouldn’t listen, you had to go ahead anyway and now you have paid the price”.

How like God in our lives. We can’t wait for God to answer our prayers so we run ahead to find the answer on our own. We will be careful and we can always stop and come back. Then we get our heart crushed and wonder how we could have been so blind. Where was God, doesn’t He care? Yes my child, but you need to wait for me. I have the perfect answer for you if you would just have the FAITH to trust me for it. It is so much better to wait for God’s perfect answer than to rush ahead and settle for our second best and unhappiness for the rest of our lives.

God doesn’t want us to crash and get our hearts broken, or to see us end up in a dead end situation. It is so hard, but we must learn to wait on Him, or we will suffer a life time of regret and anguish. We think we are so smart, but God sees the whole situation and background, as well as the future. Trust Him and he will show you the right path, and only then will you find true fulfillment and happiness in your life.

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