waiting

Waiting before the Lord could be the most painful yet glorious thing He asks us to do...

Especially in a world that taught us to be impatient...

When waiting means keeping silent when everything within you wants to speak...or containing passion deep within for a later time...God's time...because He is not inactive.

When He asks us to wait, it is because He is doing something in the unseen world. And like His Word says in Isaiah 40:31, "But those who wait for the Lord, who expect, look for, and hope in Him, shall change and renew their strength and power"...waiting upon Him will grow our strength...re-energize us, as we press on, all while He is orchestrating something great!

Somehow, God keeps bringing it back around to this...Habakkuk 2:3, "For the vision is yet for an appointed time and it hastens to the end fulfillment; it will not deceive or disappoint. Though it tarry, wait earnestly for it, because it will surely come; it will not be behindhand on its appointed day."

Enough said.

Finally, James 5:7, "So be patient as you wait...see how the farmer waits expectantly for the precious harvest from the land. See how he keeps up his patient vigil over it until it receives the early and late rains"...a farmer waits expecting fruition, not knowing when it will come exactly, but still expecting...and knowing that fruition is hinged solely on the Lord's grace to bring rains and grow the crop...again, when that rain comes is unknown...and at the end of the day, it all depends upon God...the farmer acts, in both faith and expectancy, being obedient in what has been entrusted to him, but the harvest is God's..."so be patient" (v8)...

And expect rains of grace in the waiting...