BeerInCan

I was sorting out some stuffs inside my refrigerator to make room for my newly bought food supply when I noticed this canned beer. A friend offered this to me ten months ago. I don’t drink beer so I just kept it. Suddenly I remembered it is expiring. When I looked at the bottom it has today as the expiration date.

The story of Abraham and Sarah have been my inspiration while waiting for God’s answer to my prayers for a lifetime partner. Like them, I’ve been really hopeless sometimes. Tempted to do things myself. Wondering if it is really God’s will for me to have a family. Then one day this guy came back into my life. We already knew each other three years back when we met again online on Christmas eve. I thought he’s married already. We just stopped communicating then. Now the rest is history. One day I shared about the beer and he said he liked it. However it is expensive in their place. So I jokingly told him I will keep it for him. To myself I prayed that he would come before the beer’s expiration date. But today, I haven’t even have an inkling if he would ever come to see me personally. I don’t want to open up the subject. I want the desire to come from him. He has already spent on trying ways for us to personally meet but fate seems unkind to us.

And so Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.

This is the one thing that Abraham and Sarah did that I don’t want to do. God promised them to be the parents of all nations. But they got tired of waiting. They took it upon themselves to fulfill God’s promise. Even if God didn’t tell me personally the promise for my prayers. I don’t want to get tired of waiting. No matter how hard it will be. Best things are worth waiting for.

After realizing their mistakes, Abraham and Sarah waited again and trusted God’s promise. Like them, the Lord has thought me a lot of things already. I am willing to continue until, for me, walking by faith and not by sight will become as natural as breathing.

I don’t want to intervene on His plan of a good life for me. He knows me better than I know myself. He knows when I would be ready. I knew, whatever kind of life I will lead, I can still find happiness in it as long as I continue to make Him my God.

I believe that surrendering my dream to Him is being happy even if I won’t have my dream.

Be happy even if I would lose the beer… *:-)