The Unexpected

Have you ever prayed for something for so long that you began to build expectations as to how the Lord will answer your prayer? If we are honest, we would all say that we have been there. Like myself, most girls  who have been wanting (and sometimes dreaming) to find Mr. Right have been there. 

The younger me believed that the Lord would bring Mr. Right into my life without me looking for him. But as I went from one disappointment to another, 

I became weary. Jane Austen’s novels did not help. I thought Mr. Right (not Mr. Darcy) was out there somewhere but had given up his search for me. 

And so I prayed, and I prayed, and I prayed until one day the Lord finally answered my request. No, Mr. Right did not show up at my door. God showed Himself to me through the power of His Word.

“But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious” (1 Peter 3:4 ESV).

The Lord spent the last several years of my single life changing the desire of my heart from wanting to find Mr. Right to becoming Ms. Right. What no romantic movie nor a romance novel can do, the God of the impossible did. 

The Lover of my soul patiently prepared me before He sent my David to me. My heart would not have it any other way.