"I can't wait to see what God has in store for me!"

This is a phrase I here so often being that I go to a Christian college and attend church weekly.   It has recently been used a lot within my circle of people, most of whom are younger than me since I'm home in California and not away at school, and I feel as though many of those who exclaim this phrase use it way to lightly.   Now don't get me wrong, I see myself as someone who is way undeserving of my Saviors immense love for me and I try my hardest everyday to be more like my Creator; I am also genuinely excited for the play God has for my life.  However, I have a problem with people exclaiming "I can't wait to see what God has in store for me" and not knowing what that entails.  So many people are excited for what God has for them but they aren't willing to put in the work.  Many of us, myself included, want things to fall into our laps with as little effort as possible put in to obtain the end result.  In my observation, this is what many want when they say " I can't wait to see what God has for me."  Our generation is very much an instant gratification body.  We want things and we want them now.  We want to be billionaires overnight and we aren't willing to work through college to earn the nice things in life.

This same is true of many of us in our claims of, "I can't wait to see what God has in store."  We expect to be hit upside the head with some sort of sense of perfection or happiness that will one day come and that will be what God had for us.  We think that once we reach that success that God's will for us has been fulfilled and it's done.  I don't believe that's how it works at all.  We were put on this earth the do God's work.  We were put here to change and adapt.  This is why we go through seasons.  Call me crazy, but if everything stayed the same all the time, we would all be pretty depressed and then what would the point be?  I believe that God's will for us also changes.  Last semester I was sitting in one of my final chapels for the semester just thinking about lunch, and hoping that the caf would have something edible other than pizza for the 97th time that week, when our chaplain started talking about God's will for our lives.  He told us he believed that God's will for us was what was happening in our lives at that very second.  For example, if you are sitting in class learning about statistics, then that is God's will for your life right then.  This isn't to say that God doesn't care what we do and that our choices are our choices and it doesn't matter what's happening in your personal relationship with your Father.  No, it simply means that what is here and now is what God has planned for you now so you should put your energy into it and be present and be invested in it, whatever it may be.  If we spend all of our time waiting for what God has for us, we will miss out on what he has already given us.

I am by no means perfect with this whole "be in the moment" thing.  Honestly, I've spent most of my summer waiting for the fall.  I have a lot happening this coming semester and it's hard not to put all of my time and thoughts into that.  It's okay to be excited about the future, but when we start dreaming too much about it and forgetting that there are still things to be done now, that when we can become absent in our own lives.  It's also okay to be excited to see what God has for you.  In fact, you should definitely be excited for that and blessed to feel like He has so much for you, but you should take note that what he had in store for you a year ago (or, heck, a week ago) is here and now and it took work to get to where you are, wherever that may be.  Be grateful and ready to work in the pursuit of God's will.