I've been focusing on a lot of confusing thoughts these days. It's given me this sense of urgency to put myself out there and lay my heart out on the line.
What does the bible say? The clear answer is to be patient and not to rush into things. In Genesis, the LORD made a covenant with Sarah that her and Abraham would bear a son. For many years, she waited and waited and it never happened and she grew impatient. She then insisted her handmaiden, Hagar, to conceive a child with Abraham and they bore the son, Ishmael. Sarah then resented both Hagar and Ishmael and suffered the consequences of her impatience. Ishmael was not the promised child, but the LORD promised to multiply his descendants (sidenote: this is where Christianity and Islam split). Years later, Sarah finally bore the promised son, Isaac and in her old age, she laughed. If she had been patient to begin with, she wouldn't have had to go through the hardship involving her handmaiden Hagar and Hagar's son, Ishamel and she wouldn't have been filled with so much bitterness and hatred. The LORD wants us to be patient and be obedient to Him.
What should I do? Proverbs 16
To humans belong the plans of the heart, but from the LORD comes the proper answer of the tongue.
I can try and plan out my life from beginning to the end. I have the freedom and dominion to make my own decisions. However, no matter how much I plan and no matter what I do, the LORD controls my fate. So never act out of feeling, act out of faith.
All a person's ways seem pure to them, but motivates are weighed by the LORD.
We live by the laws and morals of this earth, but these laws and morals mean nothing unless they come from the LORD.
Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.
Whatever you do, keep your promises to God and trust that He always has the best plans for you - even if you don't understand his plans, even if you have to wait patiently for a long time like Sarah did, even if it means pain and hardship for now.
The LORD works out everything to its proper end - even the wicked for a day of disaster.
Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.
Don't act on your feeling or emotions. Be patient and in that time of waiting, you may be surprised to learn something new from God that may alter your decision.
The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
God is in control of everything. You make decisions, you use your intelligence, you use your skill and you act upon it. But the results of the actions, all of the good things, they come from God. Bad things can come from God too. There is no good that comes from evil, and if you think there is, then it is not good and you are being deceived. Be careful because the devil tricks us in so many ways. If you put a frog in boiling water, it will jump right out of there. However, if you put a frog in tepid water and turn up the heat slowly and gradually, the frog will sit there until its skin burns off. The frog does not know what is happening to him, and that's exactly how the devil operates with us. In your lifetime, you will be tempted, you will be lied to, you will be persuaded and you will be corrupted. Know that all good things come from God and God only and do not be corrupted by the ways of the earth because there is only one way: God's way.
