The Answer Lies In The Heart

there fore the Lord wait Isaiah 30:18

Sometimes I look back on my fifty four years and wonder. I wonder why God waited to come to me and cultivate my heart. You see, at sixteen I moved from small town U.S.A. to a city fives times what I was used to. I was alone, unhappy and afraid. It would seem like the logical time for God to have entered my life but he waited.

The answer lies in the heart. God often comes to the broken hearted . At sixteen I had never given my heart away. But by twenty one my heart had been pushed out the window and lay on the sidewalk shattered in a thousand pieces.

It took God to come along and pick up those broken pieces and mend them back together.It took God to show me that people let you down and He never will. It took God to paint me a picture of what real love looks like.

And then like the master gardener that He is ,He planted people in my life to press seeds of love into my heart. He knew the perfect time. He waited for those seeds to germinate. The Lord will fulfill His purpose in me. Psalm 138:8 And indeed He did.

Father,

Sometimes I stop and wonder
Why I had to wait,
Before You called my name
And I could walk through heavens gait.

But now I understand
The perfection of Your plan.
I had to have a broken heart
Before I would hold Your hand.