Right Where You Need To Be

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:”- Ecclesiastes 3:1

They say the best things in life are worth waiting for, right? Whether that be marriage, having kids, agonizingly waiting for the final season of Stranger Things like we did, there are sometimes when waiting can be hard, but sometimes that thing you’re waiting on is a funnel cake.

Several years ago, at an event for the 4th of July, I got in line for this incredible delicacy. One catch though, it took me over an hour to get to the front of the line and secure the funnel cake. But in the waiting, I met some people was standing in line with, Josh and Lauren, a couple from Spartanburg, South Carolina. I got to know them, strike up conversation about how they met, their livelihoods, and their story.

And in that hour as we moved slowly but surely through that line, I wasn’t worried about time, or hurrying through, I was right where I needed to be. How often do we get like that in our lives? We feel like we have to hurry into a season, a relationship, that new place, get a job, and move into life faster than we are ready for.

This morning, remember we are right where we need to be. We aren’t behind, we aren’t early, we are exactly where His plans for us have brought us to. We are in the season, the place, the community we are in for a purpose, His purpose, His glory, His name to be known. So don’t wish away time, don’t feel like you have to make it all happen right now, take time to bring your heart to peace, and trust in where you are going because the Lord will be right by our side in this day, this season and every moment and breath to come.

Welcome the interactions with strangers, the people you are walking through this season with and everything in between, don’t let time pass you by, enjoy today, where He has you, not where your mind thinks you have to be.