Summary: <br> Who could you become? What could you do? You’ve been given this one life to figure that out and give it all you’ve got.<br> Honey, if cauliflower can become pizza, you my friend, can do anything! Nothing in your past can hold you back from your future. You have been set free to move forward. Today is a step in your journey towards the life of your future, make sure you’re stepping in the right direction.<br> Where you are today is a result of steps you took in the past. Maybe you walked out of something behind you, or maybe you walked into something right now. Recognize, it was your choice one step at a time. Understand God never expected you to wander blindly through this life. He has promised to be your guide. He has promised to direct your steps. He is always available to show you the best way.<br> Will you simply seek him here? Will you surrender your way to seek his way?<br> Isaiah 30: 18-21 is titled “Blessings For God’s People”. With a title like that, understand this is for you. Don’t excuse yourself from this blessing. YOU are God’s girl. You are his prized creation. You are here seeking him and he is responding to you personally. Verse 18 says:<br> So the Lord must wait for you to come to him<br> so he can show you his love and compassion.<br> For the Lord is a faithful God.<br> Blessed are those who wait for his help.<br> Woah … God has been waiting for YOU. Waiting for you to come to him so he can show you love and compassion. That’s what has always been waiting for you. As you ran. As you tried everything on your own. As you failed. As you made a mess. God has been waiting. Not waiting with punishment. Not waiting with judging eyes and condemnation. No, waiting with love and compassion specifically for you. All this time he has wanted to bless you, but you have to come to him.<br> I often share how I have this image of God leaning over his mighty throne in heaven, looking down on us with his loving eye, hopeful that today will be the day we let his love catch us. Hoping today will be the day he gets to show us his goodness.<br> Won’t you let him catch you today? Won’t you come to him and receive that love and compassion? Won’t you let his blessings pour over you now? Won’t you let him help you? He can and he will if you will come to him.<br> For the past year I’ve been in a personal season of understanding God’s waiting on a deeper level. We’ve been waiting on our beautiful youngest daughter. She has left our family, believing the lies of the enemy and stepping into his plan of danger and destruction. She imagines I wait with judgment, but truthfully I wait with a hope she will return to the goodness that was always here for her. The goodness of a family who found her, fought for her, adopted her, and called her their own. A goodness she can’t dismiss. A goodness that will still be waiting 20 years from now if that’s how long it takes.<br> And even more so, God waits for each of us to come to him to receive the goodness he has always had for us. He waits and he hopes today will be that day. Why wouldn’t today be that day? Why not take that step today? It’s not condemnation that awaits us, it’s redemption. It’s a life far better than we have ever dared to dream of.<br> Verse 19 & 20 say:<br> He will be gracious if you ask for help.<br> He will surely respond to the sound of your cries.<br> Though the Lord gave you adversity for food<br> and suffering for drink,<br> he will still be with you to teach you.<br> God knows his children and he knows we learn best in hardship. We grow when we are stretched. We are strengthened when we are stressed. He will teach you through all of this. He will use everything that has ever happened to you, along with all that never happened for you, to guide you to that better life.<br>
