Taken from my devotional book:

Trust: a godly woman’s adornment by Lydia Brownback

The LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made. —-Psalm 145:9

Kara wants to get married. In fact, she’s been praying for a husband for over a decade now. All her friends are married; she is the only one from the old gang who is still single. Oh, Kara recognizes God’s blessings in her life—great job, lots of friends, a good church—but she just can’t get past the fear that her chances for having a family of her own are growing dimmer by the day. As a result, Kara isn’t enjoying her single years, nor is she serving God with joy in her day-to-day work and in her interactions with others. But Kara’s fear is not caused by her unmarried state. The reason Kara is anxious and unhappy is because she isn’t trusting God in the area of her marital status. And the reason she isn’t trusting him, although she doesn’t recognize it, is because deep down in her heart she doesn’t really believe God is being good to her by keeping her single.

Whether married or single, how many of us are just like Kara when it comes to trusting God with our deepest hopes? If we struggle to trust God, it’s because at some level we don’t really believe he is good. If you are trusting something besides God to keep you safe and to make you happy, you are probably doubting God’s goodness. Such doubts gain a foothold in our hearts when God doesn’t act the way we think he should or the way we expect that he will. 

But God often acts contrary to how we think a good God should act. The answer we think we need seems so logical and clear to our way of thinking, yet God does not provide it. That is where faith comes in. Real faith isn’t the belief that God will do a particular thing; real faith is the conviction that God is good, no matter what he does and however he chooses to answer our prayers. God always has our best in mind, and he works to bring it about, no matter how it may look initially to our way of thinking.

You can trust him because he is good. And that goodness can be found—right now, today—in the very thing that you are so anxious about. Will you trust him? Will you believe he is being good to you? He is. 

Something to think about, my lovely sisters-in-Christ :) It doesn’t have to be about relationships. But my prayer to you guys is that you trust that God is good in whatever difficulty you are facing right now. Abide in Him! :)