Has God Forgotten About Me? - Grace Jerald

Have you ever had a moment when you wonder if God has forgotten about you?

Have you seen others get that promotion you worked so hard for, or witness people’s breakthrough answers to prayer while you are still struggling? While part of you is happy for them, there is still a tiny voice in your head that wonders when it will be your turn, or if, just maybe, you’ve been bumped off the ‘waitlist’, altogether.

Honestly, this has crossed my mind on a few occasions. I don’t believe that I’m jealous of other people’s progress, necessarily, but my years of praying have yielded nothing to write home about, as yet.

When will it be my time?

Thankfully, God has been faithful to me in this long season. I’ve come to recognise the discouraging thoughts that pop into my head – however reasonable they may sound – as lies of the enemy with the goal of planting seeds in my heart that God doesn’t care. God has not left me, but is guiding me to learn patience and trust, instead of allowing my delay to foster bitterness and resentment.

I am His daughter, and so are you! How could He possibly forget about people as awesome as us? Our battle is often with His timing. We expect Him to meet our request, on our terms, by our deadline. Our God, who holds time in His hand and knows the beginning from the end, is not bound by our limited understanding of the big picture. And while, ‘His timing’, feels like a cop out or a kick in the guts when we have waited so long, we must remember that He is good, faithful, and working away on our behalf.

God has the absolute best-of-the-best in store for us.

Rest assured, He hears every single one of your prayers, and they have all made a difference. As we learn to trust that He knows better, we can feel peace when He closes a door that we had expected to walk through. When we meet Him one day, face to face, we may well discover that what was behind that door would have sent us further away from His perfect plan.

As I grew in my ability to trust Him in the ‘waiting’, I learned to recognise the lies that took my eyes off God’s goodness, then began to count the blessings that I had already received. It was hard at first, because I was so drawn by what I wanted, but it was a small step that got easier the more I practised. Look around and you will find something to be thankful for right now, even if it is just a roof over your head or an encouraging text from a friend, because, “every good and perfect gift is from above” James 1:17.

So, has God forgotten about you? No, and He never will.

Written by Grace Jerald

Grace is one of our amazing young adults, She lives in Kuala Lumpur and is on team at Kingdomcity.