DAY 84 - EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IN TIME
MILANNA MARTILLARO, YA CREATIVE & PRODUCTION TEAM LEAD
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11
Recently, God has been giving me a new revelation about this fav verse of mine in Ecclesiastes. As an enneagram 2, (please forgive me for referencing the enneagram) I have always been one to avoid feeling like I am not ok. I have never really felt comfortable sitting in tough seasons. In the midst of hardship and sad feelings, I shy away from sitting in them. My prayers in those seasons are usually asking for immediate relief or deliverance. And as normal as I think it is for us to have a desire to feel good feelings and happy times. I think there is so much beauty in seasons of hardship.
The other day I came across a piece of scripture that I really clung to during one of the WORST seasons in my life. Highlighted in purple in my bible, just as every verse was that spoke to me during this hard time, it jumped out at me and brought my back to that time. And normally thinking about that time for me is extremely painful, so much so that I avoid it at all costs. But this time, I felt a sweetness to it. And later that day I just so happened to hear a song that I clung to during that time as well. And I was again brought back to a time in my life where I was so hurt, and so burdened and all I could do was see the sweetness and the beauty of it.
Weird, I know. But stay with me.
As I remembered these things about this horrible time in my life, I started to look back on this time and see just how close God was. That in my sorrow, Jesus was there with me, closer than ever. The bible tells us in Psalm 34, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” Young Adult, this is such truth! That in times where we are so distraught, broken, and in complete despair, Jesus is so close.
After thinking about just how close God was during my time of heartbreak, I started to almost miss this season of my life. WHAT? That’s right. A time when I would’ve done anything to just not feel the way I did, a time when I was BEGGING God for deliverance, like “GOD GET ME OUT OF THIS SEASON”, I actually look back on now and see so much of the beauty of that season. I see so much of how much God did in my heart, how much he spoke, how close He drew me in, and I am so thankful. Something I NEVER thought I would say regarding this time in my life.
And this is the beauty of our God. He won’t just take that ugly thing, that ugly time in your life, and make it beautiful one day. He will actually take seasons of your life that hurt like heck and show you the beauty in it because He is in it all, Young Adult. Because He makes EVERYTHING beautiful in its time.