What happens when we move too fast? When we become impatient with or tired of waiting on God to answer....What happens when we take matters into our own hands and think to ourselves "I know God is gonna do it but I just can't wait around and let this keep going on? Or I just can't take it anymore so I gotta do something!" Sound familiar to you???
Something very basic happened to me this summer and only recently, more than a month later, did I realize the connection to waiting on the Lord. It's been years since I burned my forehead with a curling iron, but this summer on two consecutive days, I burned my forehead! The first day it was a spot on my left side forehead and on the second day, it was the same left side but the burn was lower, right where the eyebrow ends, near my temple. I felt like such joke being nearly 40 years old and still burning my forehead...I should be a Pro at curling irons by now...but anyway it happened :-(
In the following days the burn darkened to a dark brown scab on each burn, which looked really unattractive to me. So I decide that I would pick the scab off of the burn near my eyebrow, since it looked like it was getting scaly and would probably start to peel soon anyway. I just hated the way the burns looked, I felt like everyone was looking at them and wondering what kind of 30-something fool was still burning her forehead??? So I was just beside myself and I started peeling. When I peeled all of the scab off, the round circle left behind was about 2-3 shades lighter than the rest of the skin on my forehead...so now I'm like "Oh NOOOOO!" It was too late, so now I had to live with an even more visible scar and answer to why I bothered the scab and look like an even bigger fool! Well, needless to say, I left the other burn alone! It was maybe about 4-5 days later when the scab on the second burn began to scale and fall away. When all of the scab was gone, I couldn't even see where that burn was to begin with! The skin under that burn blended completely and perfectly into the other skin around it. And guess what...the other burn...that I helped along by peeling off the scab....to this day, more than a month later...has darkened but it is now darker than all the other skin on my face :-( and now I'm trying to doctor it up with cocoa butter to get it to blend in...more time and more money to spend to correct an issue that never would've occurred if I had just waited on God to heal the skin on the body that He created...hmmmmm
So this is a lesson that I've learned several times before but somehow didn't really process because if I had, I wouldn't have made the same dumb decision again...
But while the lesson is fresh in my mind, I thought I'd share it with you. 100% of the time, if we wait for God to work things out, He works them out better than we imagined...and 100% of the time, when we decide to work things out on our own because we need things to happen NOW, we mess things up and then have to suffer the consequences of our actions... because there always seems to be a consequence! So on that note, I'm gonna head out to Target and get a cocoa butter stick so that I can try to fix this one, out of place dark spot, that is bugging the heck out of me!!!
Be Blessed :-)
Song to listen to: "I'll Make It" - Hezekiah Walker
