I was driving down the street a couple of Monday’s ago and I found myself having a slight pity party. You see, the weekend before that I’d managed to do my usual "run myself ragged routine" and in the midst of that attended two wedding showers. I love both of the ladies that were having wedding showers, but couldn’t help but find myself feeling a little sad that my husband hadn’t yet found me. As I was driving along the road, I talked with God and how I was feeling. I expressed that I understood that all things happen in due time and that I was willing to wait for Him, but I was a little sad right then and needed Him to comfort me. It was then that I noticed, as I drove up to a red light, that I’d been getting caught at every red light. The light changed and I pulled off, only to get stopped at the next red light.
It wasn’t a big deal, you might say, but it was all I needed, after feeling so sorry for myself, to burst into tears. I began to wipe away tears as I noticed I not only got stopped at the red light, but was the ONLY car at the red light. No one was in front of me and no one was behind me. I felt so alone at that moment as tears continued to stream down my face. Then out of my own mouth I said, "Lord I feel like I’m the last one in everything!" God’s presence at the very moment filled my car. The light turned green and I began to pull off when He spoke to me and said… "My child, you may be the last now, but I shall make thee the head and not the tail." I suddenly realized that all that time I was waiting to hear from God, He was speaking to me. At every red light, sitting alone all by myself, the last one at the light, He was whispering to me. But it wasn’t until the green light (move forward) that I heard Him whisper… "Yes daughter, you may have been the last person who got caught at the red light (waiting), but now my daughter look around… at that same red light, (which is now GREEN), you are first!!!" Indeed, I was the first one to drive off at the green light, and first in the things He has prepared for me.
So be encouraged my sisters and brothers… you may be at a red light in your life right now, but the green light is on the way… you are the HEAD and not the TAIL. God has not forgotten nor forsaken you… and with Him, you are always first.
