To the girl who doesn't quite have her life figured out...

All around us, media, friends, family, and influencers are pressuring us to be like everyone else. We’re expected to go to college right after high school. To know exactly what we want to major in so that we can graduate in four years. Right after graduation we’re expected to either go right on to graduate school or have a job and start our career. After college it’s also expected that we’ll be engaged to that perfect guy and soon after be married, have a house, and in a few years start a perfect little family.

However, it isn’t that simple. The pressures that are put on us to have everything figured out in societies timetable just aren’t realistic, and it isn’t what God has planned for us at all.

And I’m just here to tell you, IT IS OKAY to not have everything figured out right now.

I know it’s hard to look around at our friends and peers that seem to have everything figured out, when we still don’t know what career we want to have or know who we’re going to marry. But you know what, that’s okay. God has a completely different plan for each and everyone of us, and if we are so caught up in comparing our lives to someone else’s, we completely miss out on how God is trying to use us in our current season of life.

“Comparison is the thief of all joy."(Theodore Roosevelt) We were made to be different. We were made to experience things at different times and seasons of our lives. Where you are right now is exactly where God wants you to be and what you’re going through is preparing you for what lies in the days ahead of you.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.”

Jeremiah 29:11-13 NLT

Notice that this doesn’t say, “I know the plans YOU have for you”, it says “I know the plans I [God] have for you”. Yes it’s good to plan things in our lives, but ultimately we should be seeking to have our plans align with God's plans. With this in mind, we should be ever grateful when our plans don’t pan out because that means God was saving us from something we didn’t need and has something so much better in store.

If you’re confused about what God is planning for your life, this verse in Jeremiah says “if you look for me WHOLEHEARTEDLY, you will find me.” He’s a good God, and wants his children to seek him. Spend some time seeking Him today, the more you know Him the more you’ll know His heart.

The joy in all of this is that we don’t have to have it all figured out, because we serve a God who is perfect and wise and knows what we need better than we do! Be thankful that your future doesn’t rest on you or what you can or can’t do, but on a God who loves you more than anyone and promises to fulfill His plan for your life.