Lately, I’ve been asking myself sort of a strange question—but a question I’m sure many of us ask ourselves at some point: When did I become an adult?

I don’t think adulthood has ever been as real to me as it has in the last couple weeks. Since 10 days ago, I got engaged to a great girl and fellow Veritas staffer Sara Bouska, started planning a wedding, made a detailed budget, and began house hunting. (Yes, for those of you who don't know, a secret love story has been unfolding behind the scenes of Veritas for about the last 6 months. Stay tuned for all the juicy details in the weeks ahead.)

Honestly, it’s really hard not to let all these exciting events become a distraction. For instance, we recently toured a house we absolutely fell in love with. It became really hard not to let that consume all my thoughts. As we discussed the possibility of making an offer on the house for a couple days, God really spoke to us through Psalm 37, which just happened to be part of the One Year reading plan we’re both on.

Psalm 37:3-7,16
Trust in the Lord, and do good;

dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
Delight yourself in the Lord,

and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord;

trust in him, and he will act.

He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,

and your justice as the noonday.
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him;

fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,

over the man who carries out evil devices!
Better is the little that the righteous has

than the abundance of many wicked.

I love how clear God makes himself to us when we earnestly seek him. As we prayed about our decision, it became very apparent to us for multiple reasons that making an offer would not be wise. 

Sure, it would be nice to take advantage of the $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit, and we still might be able to. But we don’t actually need a place to live until we get married in August, and the house would have maxed out our budget. As we talked about it, we decided we’d be better off buying less of a house if it would mean being comfortable making our monthly mortgage payment and still being generous with our money. I think that’s kind of what David was saying when he wrote, “Better is the little that the righteous has…”

So in the meantime, we’ve decided to trust the Lord and wait patiently for him. It certainly is an exciting time in our lives, but it can never be at the cost of our relationship with the Lord. Because as we delight ourselves in him, he will he give us the desires of our hearts. (I mean, he already proved that to us 6 months ago.)