It was the first month of college. I went to Cru with my friends like any normal Thursday night. I wasn't expecting God to speak to me so clearly that night, but I should have.
At the end of the message, the speaker for that night asked us to bow our heads and sit in stillness, to ask the Holy Spirit to speak to us. After this time, he would say a few words and maybe one of them would stick out to us. I began to pray asking the Spirit to speak clearly to me and to show me exactly without question what He wanted me to know. As the speaker started saying words, he said the word we all know and love... wait.
The Holy Spirit let me know loud and clear this was indeed the word for me, and as you can imagine, I was so thrilled that my word was, "wait."
Anyone who knows me knows that waiting has never been something I was good at. To give a clear example, my dad and I love Star Wars, and when I was a little girl and was being my typical inpatient self, he would say, "Patience, young Jedi."
Months went by of God sending multiple messages that all pointed back to that one word, but I chose to ignore them. All of us have been there at some point: we desire for God to speak, but when He does, His answer is not always what we wanted. So, we just pretend He never said it as if that is going to change His mind. News flash, it doesn't.
All day Friday, I had the story of David on my mind: not exactly his battle with Goliath or his affair with Bathsheba but rather his humble beginning. In the most random moment possible, the Holy Spirit laid the story of when David was anointed the future king of Israel on my heart. I opened up my Bible to 1 Samuel 16 which is a good story. At first, I thought that was it, just a good story. I was wrong. Again.
To sum the story up, Samuel anoints this little shepherd boy, David, to be the future king of Israel. He was the unlikely choice, putting it lightly. God chose him anyway, and he then goes to help King Saul by playing the harp.
God taught me that while He had the plan for David to become king someday, that moment was not yet come, and David was content being the harp player for now. Being used by God was his heart's desire, and he never seemed worried about waiting. He was happy to be serving God in any capacity, and he was fully confident that God's purpose for his life would be fulfilled in God's time, the best time.
This is it. Before you can be like King David, you have to learn how to be like the little shepherd boy, harp player David.
It is okay to think about the future, but it cannot dominate your thoughts. God has a purpose in the here and now for you. You need to live out that purpose and trust Him to bring His plans to pass when the time is exactly right. He won't fail or be late; David became king eventually.
