Someone else’s timeline is not evidence about yours. Their answered prayer doesn’t mean God skipped over you. Let their joy remind you that beautiful things are still happening, and yours can happen too.
Angel: She thinks you forgot her.
God: I know.
Angel: Everyone around her is getting what she prayed for. The relationship. The opportunity. The family. The new beginning. She’s happy for them, but every time it happens, she wonders why it still hasn’t happened for her.
God: I know what she’s asking when she says, “T’m so happy for them.”
Tell her she doesn’t need to turn someone else’s blessing into a prophecy about her future
Jacqueline Whitney
Angel: What is she really asking?
God: “When is it going to be my turn?”
Angel: Is she wrong for feeling that way?
God: Of course not. She’s human. It hurts to watch someone else receive something you’ve been asking for. But their answered prayer is not evidence that I forgot hers.
Angel: Then why is she still waiting?
God: Because her life has its own timing. I’m not writing her story according to everyone else’s schedule.
Angel: She’s starting to think it might never happen.
God: Tell her she doesn’t need to turn someone else’s blessing into a prophecy about her future. What I am doing for them has nothing to do with what I can still do for her.
Angel: So you haven’t forgotten?
God: Not for one second.
Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.
