By Christina Lampkin
Hello everyone, this week I want to talk about blessings in disguise. Not in the way we normally think about it, but more in the sense when things don’t go the way we would like it or the way we had planned. I believe that a lot of blessings are disguised to look like “mishaps” or “bad luck.” I remember talking with my sister about a flat tire she had one day, and she was letting that one mishap set the tone for her whole day. I told her that the flat tire could have saved her life. Say if her tire didn’t go flat and she didn’t have to pull over, who knows what could’ve happened a mile or two down the road. Maybe she could’ve been involved in a bad wreck or anything. So instead of letting the bad tire set the mood for a stressed day, she should let it set the mood for a blessed day. Because only God knows what that one mishap saved her from.
Blessings are also disguised as no or as wait. I know personally I have no patience. I want what I want when I want it. My age hasn’t changed that expectation much, because I still expect things when I think they should happen or when I want them to happen. However, I’m learning or I’m on the journey of learning that God’s no or wait are blessings in disguise. If I’m honest with myself somethings that I've wanted in the past, if God would have blessed me with it at the exact time I wanted it, I wouldn’t have been ready for it. Even now, some things that I want to happen right now in my life, deep inside I know I’m not ready for them. However, I do believe He is getting me ready to receive them.
God has given me such peace in this time, when the enemy said I should be anything but at peace. I have never felt this much peace even when everything was going right. If I’m being transparent my life is the opposite of everything going right at this moment. But I’m okay with that. I’m at peace with not knowing what the future holds and just being here to enjoy the ride. Life is the journey, right? I don’t know if I’ve said it before, but wouldn’t life be quite boring if we didn’t have anything to strive for, any goals, or any dreams. If we had everything we wanted already, somehow, I feel like many of us would still be looking for something else. Maybe, another journey. So maybe the journey is really a blessing in disguise. The journey is filled with all these mishaps, standstills, depression, delays, feelings of you’re not enough, or that you will never get there. But on these journeys, we find God, we find true peace, our character grows, we learn things that we wouldn’t have normally learned if things were just given to us. So, this journey that we are all on, is really our blessing in disguise.
I want anyone who’s reading this to know that God loves you, and he created you in His image. He crafted this journey that you are on specifically for you. Of course, there are some things that the enemy does to try to get you off your path. God will still use these things for your good. Bad seasons, depression, or anything else the enemy throws at you, never last! These things are still being used to create the overall person you are meant to be. I hope everyone has a great Memorial Day. Be Blessed!
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” – Romans 8:28 NKJV
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” – 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 NKJV
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