"...We must be willing to be honest with him and with ourselves about the true nature of our souls -- our sorrows, our desires, our dreams, our fears, our deepest and scariest hopes. To invite Jesus to come and walk with us there, to remove from our hearts the things that are getting in the way of our loving. We do not always get what we want, but that doesn't mean that we no longer want. It means we stay awake to the unmet longing and ache. Wait there. Invite Jesus to come, there. And he will come. Not always to satisfy us by giving us what we want. But to come himself; to meet us with his very Person and to satisfy us with himself. To possess true beauty, we must be willing to suffer. I don't like that. Just writing it down makes my heart shrink back. Yet if Christ himself was perfected through his sufferings, why would I believe God would not do the same with me?"
-- Excerpt from Captivating
Patience. Don't take things into your own hands. God wants you to wait on him.
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