...two front teeth.
OK, I know it's almost Spring but that's the song that came to my head.
We've got some news...Princess lost her 3rd tooth today! Yay! Poor girl has been trying to get it out for some time now. After weeks of waiting, praying and pulling it's out.
Hooray! Praise God!
This experience of hers got me thinking about a certain situation that God has put us in lately. We've been waiting and praying for God to answer some prayers of ours. Because I'm so inpatient and wanting things done my way rather than waiting patiently on the Lord (yes, I'm willing to admit that for the sake of sanctification), I end up hurting myself. Maybe not like the physical pain that Princess felt while she waited for her tooth to fall out but something close to it.
Anxiety and worry...they only lead to distrust in what God is doing. I need to just wait and allow God to "pull and tug" on me so that His good and perfect will can be accomplished in my life.
1 Peter 1:6-9 comes to mind,
"In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls."
I'm thankful that even though there is suffering in our trials, He can still make me full "with an inexpressible and glorious joy" as I wait for Him to answer my prayers in His perfect time. Praise the Lord!
BTW, did I mention that her other front tooth is loose too?
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