Skip to main content

Wait for It!

            I seem to always be in a hurry for God to do what I want Him to do.  It seems that what God wants to do for me is teach me how to wait.  I find myself waiting for it over and over again. 

            After years of waiting I thought I got good at it.  I can see that there is improvement in my ability to wait on God, I still plan far more than He knows is good for me. 

            WAITING is vital to spiritual maturity.  I’m learning God’s purpose for waiting is the way He  focuses my soul.

            A pregnant woman thinks about her baby her whole pregnancy, but she is willing to wait to hold her child in her arms because she knows that before 36 weeks, the baby is not completely mature to live in the world.  That is why God asks us to wait for our spiritual maturity.  No matter how fast and furious we try to make spiritual progress, most of our spiritual growth takes place while we are waiting.

            Isaiah 30:18 proclaims the promises for those who wait on the Lord! Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! God doesn’t ask us to wait for Him so He can receive more glory, rather He asks us to wait on Him so we can receive more blessings.  God is just and though it appears that what you are waiting on is unjust, God has good reasons that we can’t understand.

            Just because I know the value of waiting doesn’t make it easy on me.  One of my tricks to waiting is to choose an arbitrary year eight to twelve years away and determine to wait until that time.  So far, I have never waited past that year to see my prayers answered and receive, in God’s perfect timing, the answer to my prayer.  The reason for the waiting isn’t always perceived, but the weariness of waiting is never the focus.  The joy of what God has done is all that I can focus on.

            In the meantime I have gleaned some of the blessings of waiting—learning to trust God more, letting go of my expectations to receive a better answer than I could have ever considered on my own.  I also discover a spiritual strength that I didn’t know I had.

            Are you growing impatient with God’s answer?  Wait for it.  Waiting on God brings our His blessings.

Copyright © 2014.  Deborah R. Newman  teatimeforyoursoul.com  All Rights Reserved.

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Pilgrimage that Started with Tears

                Who would think I would shed tears deciding to set out on a wonderful journey that I have longed to take for many years?   Before I was ready to fully accept God’s invitation for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, I had to journey to a place of agreement between what my soul wanted and what the Lord wanted for me.   For years I have been declining opportunities to travel to Israel—not because I didn’t want to go but because I wanted to go with my husband by my side.   I know that God could have arranged that for me, but instead He asked me to accept that He wanted me to be willing to go and leave everything behind.   When I was asked to make a decision about going on a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, God gave me this verse in answer to my prayer -- Debi, observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are cr...
2 comments
Read more

Why Me?

              When something tragic or unexpected happens, our first question seems to be, Why me?   It’s only human to feel this way and wonder why life has got to be so hard.   God has helped me look at my unwanted circumstances with a different question.   Rather than keep the focus on my pain and ask, Why me?   I focus on Him and wonder, How can You be glorified when everything is going wrong?             Adding one more word to that question makes a huge difference spiritually and opens my soul to find so much more than just my pain.   Another way to look at life’s tragedies is, Why not me ?   Sure, we each have our own amount of personal sorrows. These are the kind of sorrows that have no answers.      We can't explain away death, cancer, rape, bankruptcy and other heartaches.   It is easier to explain...
Post a Comment
Read more

Holy Saturday

Nothing is written about the events of Holy Saturday except Luke 23:56, “they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.” These few words speak volumes about our life with Christ.   What was it like for these ladies to rest on the Sabbath?   They had watched carefully, they knew how quickly Jesus’ body was laid in the grave. The men had brought spices and linens, but they had little time to properly anoint this most precious of all bodies.   As the women watched carefully, they made mental note of the supplies that would be necessary to complete this sacred act of burial as it should be. They spent the last few hours before sunset to prepare the spices for this holy act of reverence. The Sabbath signaled the time for rest.   I’m sure they didn’t feel like resting, but by complying out of obedience they were probably served by its benefits.   Their minds racing from the horror they had just witnessed, at best they could allow their bodies to rest and ...
Post a Comment
Read more