This blog entry is pretty funny to me, but I hope the core of the message will resonate with you.
For months, there was a stye located on my left eye. It wasn't the normal one. This stye actually hung over my bottom eyelid. If you're reading this and we've been in the same room, you know what I'm talking about. On some days, a little piece would be over the lid; and on some days, it was so much skin hanging over my lid you'd think God had given me a third eye.
In an effort to get rid of it, I tried everything. Warm compression. Home remedies. Emergency room. Fervent-tongue talking-calling fire from Heaven's furnace-prayer. At some points, the sty would shrink but it wouldn't be long before it would puff up again, ultimately making all of my efforts of no avail. So what did I eventually do? I accepted it as a new part of my appearance. I hated that it was there because it was weird having people stare and ask questions and because many of my GOOD selfies were ruined by this disruptive little beast. But when something has been a part of you for so long, accepting it seems natural. The things we can't change despite our best efforts usually become the things we settle for by default rather than desire.
Fast forward to about a week ago. By now, the stye had FINALLY reduced in size, so much so that it wasn't visible and the only way to see it was by pulling my lid downwards. Ain't God good? I was super happy because the timing couldn't be more perfect. It was almost time for my big weekend of celebrating the one year book-a-versary of my debut book [Shades of Grace - available on Amazon.com :-)] and a part of this weekend included a photo shoot with Mayweather Images for marketing and branding. As the date for the shoot got closer, my biggest fear was that the stye would enlarge and ruin a shoot we worked so hard to put together. When I noticed that the stye started to protrude over my lid again, that fear was fed.
Not wanting high hopes to land me at disappointment, I made myself accept that there just MIGHT be a possibility of the unfortunate occurring. That was my way of nursing a wound that didn't exist. I wanted to resolve a problem I didn't have......yet. Then, the unthinkable happened.
As I normally do in the shower, I prayed, I worshiped. While doing so, something awkward happened with my eye and it prompted me to glance at the shower floor; so I glanced and noticed a reddish piece of something on the floor in the shape of a dot. I picked it up and it turned out to be the stye that I NEVER expected to get rid of completely. Here I was absolutely happy that it reduced in size even though it was still there. As long as it wasn't noticeable, that was enough for me. There was a sense of contentment that came independent of a desire for more.
All that to say: the things you've forced yourself to accept because you've counted out the idea of them ever being removed are about to DROP off of your life....and it's going to happen in the blink of an eye.....just as it did for me. The most amazing detail is NOT that the stye is gone, but rather the timing of everything. It amazes me how God will do the very thing you've been waiting on AFTER you've dismissed the hope of it ever happening just to prove the perfection of His timing.
I really just wrote this to inform somebody's heart that: God's timing may frustrate you, but it'll never fail you. It's still worth trusting!
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