If you are planted why not bloom?

It is amazing how you can think you are so right for so long...And then the truth is revealed. If you read my previous blog you were made aware of God's calling for me to be in the youth ministry. That hasn't changed, but the way I am dealing with it has. With college applications being on the forefront of my mind, All I have been able to think about it which college pleases both my parents and me. I want a college that has a major in some type of ministry. Here I am all concerned about where I should go to serve God... When I didn't realize that the opportunity is right in front of me. I had a long talk with my Youth Director tonight telling him about God knocking behind the missions door for me. (I have been extremely busy with RUMORS ((Neil Simmon's play)) that I haven't been able to spend as much time helping and leading within the youth group). He made me realize that God's timing is everything. He told me of the Bible passage (Acts 3: 1-10) where Peter and John were going to the temple to pray. They saw this crippled man begging at the top of the stairs. The man was asking for money. They said they did not have money but that they could offer him more. Although the story is important, what it is saying behind it is even more so. The man had been crippled since birth. Everyday he was brought infront of the Temple to beg. This is the same place where Christ came to preach. If the man was there daily and Christ ministered there, how come Christ never healed the man? The answer... Because it wasn't God's timing. God had an intended purpose. Although right now I know exactly what God wants me to do; I do not know where God wants me to go to college to peruse it. I am having to wait for God to share his timing. Patience is what I need right now. God's timing brings up another subject...
The passage shows God's timing has it's reasons. This is also the case in my story. There is a reason that God shared his calling for me in 3rd grade. I thought that I was responding correctly to it by living my life as an example as I waited (1 Tim 4:12). But that is not necessarily what God wanted me to do with me time. I have come to the realization that I am planted right now. I am stuck in my current situation with only 6th months left. I am rooted. I have all these seeds of lessons, topics, ideas, etc that just want to burst out of me... Yet I have been waiting till after college and my entrance into the ministry to let myself bloom to spill out my seeds. I am not doing God's will by holding out. I should bloom. God has told my his plan for 9 years now, now I realize why. God has planted me here for a reason. I am to share His message with everyone and everything I am around. Yes I should do so by the way I live my life, but also by sharing what He has to say.
I am not going to hold back any longer. God's watch is always right. There is a reason for his timing. I do not have to wait till I think the timing is right to share His message, he told me a long time ago that the clock started. Who knows what tomorrow might bring. For all I know this could be the very last thing I ever write. but I do know that the race has started. The time has been running and I do not know how much time is left.

"Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." Hebrews 12:1

ACts 3: 1-10 "1One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer--at three in the afternoon. 2Now a man crippled from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. 3When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. 4Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, "Look at us!" 5So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them. 6Then Peter said, "Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk." 7Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man's feet and ankles became strong. 8He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God. 9When all the people saw him walking and praising God, 10they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. "