How Well Do You Wait?

 

It’s hard to wait. Waiting in traffic, waiting in line, waiting on hold with someone else’s choice of music playing in your ear. We find ourselves impatient and frustrated because we want to see progress. We want answers, we want resolution so we can move on.

Our society doesn’t wait well. And in these recent months, that has become even more evident. Everyone, it seems, has no time to wait. We have too much else to do. Places to go, people to see, work to be done.

But there is a lesson to be learned in the waiting. God uses waiting to teach us to depend on Him and not ourselves. To trust His timing and not our own. He is never bound by the clock or the calendar. His timing has eternity in mind where today and tomorrow have little meaning.

Sometimes the things we have been asking the Lord to do in our lives are things we must wait for. You’ve heard the saying that God’s answer is either yes, no or wait.

Trust is like a muscle. It gets stronger when we use it. God uses waiting to strength our trust muscle. In the waiting, we are becoming more like Jesus.

It’s hard, but there is no other way.

“Wait for the LORD; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the LORD.”  Psalm 27:14