Oct 23, 2019
By Sarina Villalpando
Sometimes we are hit with something and it doesn’t make sense why it is going on in our lives. We are constantly told as Christians that God’s timing is everything and to trust it. But let’s admit it, we all have trouble trusting the timing and it takes us time to admit defeat and submit fully to God’s plan.
Today is Tuesday, October 1, 2019, and for the past couple of days I have been dealing with a very annoying eye infection. Monday morning I woke up with my eye swollen shut and had to call off work and race over to the doctor’s office to find out what happened to my eye overnight. Something I simply thought was a bug bite ended up turning into a contagious eye infection that is going to keep me out of work for four more days. Four days of missing work means four days of not getting paid, which means a much smaller paycheck.
I am a newlywed, which to some may indicate money is pretty tight. Life goes paycheck to paycheck—so finding out I was going to be out of work really made me question things. Thoughts of why this had to happen now when money was already tight began to go through my head. Questions of why God decided this moment was the moment for me to get “sick” ran through my mind. I don’t have the answer for that fully yet. Maybe He wanted me to slow down and catch up on things. We never know—God’s ways are mysterious to us. This situation brought me to a conclusion: why not turn lemons into lemonade and write an article about it?
I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on God’s timing and wondering why He does the things He does. Why we wait for certain things and why some things come sooner than planned? I admit it: lately my trust and faith in God has been on the ice—but I’m working on it; none of us are perfect. Anyone who believes your trust in God is unbreakable, send a message my way.
The moral of this is faith takes some people more time to grow than others. Sometimes we fall and it takes us a moment to rise back up. Sometimes we hit a road bump that we did not plan on hitting and it throws us to the curbs. Sometimes these things take us aback and make us question God. You are not alone. Trust me. Life is hard and when it takes us aback it’s even harder. Some of you are going to rise back up the next day. Others of you may take months. I fell a couple of months ago, but hey, I know I will get back up there. To the person reading this who is going through something hard and doesn’t know what’s going on or why you’re going through this—God is waiting for you. He knows what’s going on and when you are ready to talk, He is there. Whether we like it or not.
“Though the mountain be shaken and the hills be removed,
Yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken,
Nor my covenant of peace be removed”
—Isaiah 54:10
