God's Best

I have not shared the following poem since June of 2011.  "God's Best" has become my all time favorite poem.  Maybe that is because it was given to me during a difficult time in my life.  I was in my late twenties when I "finally" met a guy that I was truly interested in developing a relationship.  I had tons of guy friends, but not anyone I was serious about in a romantic way.  Then this guy broke up with me on the Monday following Memorial Day.  Even though I had prayed that if he wasn't the one God wanted for me, he would be the one to break it off,  I was devastated.  A friend of mine, gave me this poem.  I read it several times.  The second verse didn't make sense to me at all.  I thought about it for a full month before I realized what it meant.  Although this guy would have made a good husband, he was  "the better" not God's Best for me.  We really didn't have anything in common and our lifes' goals were different.

 

Then I met another guy.  He, too, wanted to ranch and he even lived in the same state that I wanted to live in.  Once again, he broke up with me the Monday after Memorial Day.  I couldn't understand why except we really didn't share the same goals.  In one sense I was willing to give up my dreams and goals for him while on the other hand I hoped that he wouldn't ask me to marry him because I didn't think that I could say yes.  He would have been "the better" not God's Best for me.

 

Then I met Chip.  He just happened to live in the very state that I said that I would never live in, but we had the same dreams, goals and interests. (I wouldn't see him on the Mondays after Memorial Day!)   I had found the reason the other two guys were not for me.  They were/are great guys, but they were not what God had planned for me.  Chip was/is God's Best for me.  I am so thankful that I didn't settle for "the better" and that I waited for "God's Best."

 

 

(Please read Life on the Ranch: Life Lessons I Learned on the Ranch to read my/our story.  It can be purchased through Amazon as a book or for your Kindle.)

God’s Best

God has His best things for the few

That dare to stand the test;

God has His second choice for those

Who will not have His best.

It is not always open ill

That risk the promised rest;

The Better often is the foe

That keeps us from the Best.

And others make the highest choice,

But when by trials pressed,

They shrink, they yield, they shun the cross,

And so they lose the best.

I want in this short life of mine,

As much as can be pressed

Of service true for God and man;

Help me to be my best.

Give me O Lord thy highest choice’

Let others take the rest,

Their good things have no charm for me,

For I have got thy Best.

Author Unknown