Journey Day 161

The past few weeks I have been in a funk. There is no real cause, and no real reason for it, it just is. But today has been a good remedy for that. I woke up feeling pretty motivated for a change, and when that happens I clean. So thus I now have a very very clean kitchen, and I started packing up all my stuff to move. Then slowly the motivation started to wear off, and as I was driving to work I was starting to feel the funk again, but then there was a short devotion on the christian radio station I listen to. It talked about how God is not a microwave. And it talked about how God is there for us, and just because He doesn't answer our prayers at lightning speed, doesn't mean He won't ever answer them! It was just what I needed to hear. I'm beginning to see that my problem isn't that I don't trust that God will answer my prayers... it's that when He doesn't answer them right away I begin to lose hope, and get discouraged. God is not a microwave... sometimes He is a slow cooker, and His perfect will for my life takes time. When you think about it something made in a conventional oven, or a slow cooker takes so much better than something we cook in a microwave, and in the same way I know that my life will be better because I am being forced to take things slow. Maybe to you this is a weird analogy, but to me it makes perfect sense : )