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What You Should Be Doing In The Meantime

by Ender Bowen / Tuesday, 26 April 2016 / Published in Purpose

God will reveal you to the world when God is prepared to do so. In the meantime, do the work that God has set before you. And above all else… Live. Feel. Love. Laugh. Experience.


Maybe You’re Asking God The Wrong Questions

“Why haven’t I found success yet?”

“Why haven’t I made it?”

“When is it finally going to happen?”

“God, what’s taking you so long?”

Does any one (or more) of these sound like something you’ve said or asked before? I can say with complete honesty that I’ve probably asked every single one of these questions of God at one time or another. And fairly recently, at that.

The first thing I want to tell you is that it’s okay. It’s entirely natural to ask these questions. In fact, it’s great that you’re attempting to strike up any dialogue with God at all, and even moreso that you’re looking for answers from Him.

But I’d be willing to bet that you’re frustrated because you don’t appear to be getting any answers in reply. Not anything very clear or definitive, in the least.

That’s because the second thing that I want to tell you is that you’re asking the wrong questions. After all, you know that God has an end-game in store for you; you know that He’s going to open those doors when He chooses to do so; you know that “it will all happen” when He is ready.

So the question of when – and maybe even how – is irrelevant. If you trust Him, His plan for you will unfold when He wants it to.

Stop concerning yourself so much with that. Leave that to Him.

The question you should be asking is “Lord, what can I be doing in the meantime?”

What You Should Be Doing In The Meantime

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So often in life, we become overly consumed by the idea of “arriving”; by finally breaking away from that mundane job or that “normal” life and seeing our hard work bear real fruit – the fruit we’ve dreamed of our entire lives. We tend to focus so much on that end-game that we forget we’re actually living a life in the meantime.

And if we’re living a life in the meantime, isn’t there a purpose to that? Isn’t there a reason that God hasn’t just “made it all come to pass”?

If you died tomorrow, having never truly “made it”, would you sincerely believe you never really lived at all?

God will reveal you to the world when God is prepared to do so. In the meantime, do the work that God has set before you. And above all else… Live. Feel. Love. Laugh. Experience.

You may just find out that, interestingly enough, that is where God’s plan for you is ultimately revealed.

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4 Comments to “ What You Should Be Doing In The Meantime”

  1. Marti says :Reply
    April 26, 2016 at 9:31 pm

    So very true! I’ve learned to to focus on serving Him wherever I am, and it’s made life such an adventure… Even in monotony. There’s a lot to be said in surrendering to him. I won’t be the servant that buried my talent in the ground! Good words, my man!

  2. Ender Bowen says :Reply
    April 26, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    Thank you! It’s certainly been a process and I’ve a ways to go but I feel like I’m finally crossing that “threshold” where things are just… clearer. Thanks for reading and for sharing!

  3. Lee Humphreys says :Reply
    November 17, 2016 at 12:56 am

    Very insightful and reading this has changed my perspective for today. Thank you

    1. Ender Bowen says :Reply
      November 17, 2016 at 9:09 am

      Thank you so much for the comment 🙂 I’m glad it had an effect on you! Have a wonderful day!

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