WAITING!!!

The scriptures are full of stories of people waiting on God! Abraham waited on God to give him a son! The nation of Israel waited to be delivered from the bondage of Egypt! Then they waited for hundreds of years for the promised Messiah! In fact they are still waiting!The disciples kept waiting for Jesus to overthrow the Romans and take control as King! Today the Church is waiting for the return of Christ! Waiting seems to be one of the primary ways that God works His plan into our lives.I hate waiting; don’t you? It requires us to trust in the unseen! It requires me to trust in someone that I cannot control! It forces me to have faith that the invisible God will accomplish something good in this physical world; or as David said, “in the land of the living.” I have to trust that He will perform it when He is ready and that His timing is better than mine.Waiting demands that we trust, and frankly wouldn’t we all like to have our blessings right now, thank you!Waiting develops that thing called “patience,” ouch! Faith and patience seem to be necessary for God’s work “in us” to be accomplished.It is in the “waiting” that our hearts are purified and refocused. As I have longed for God to do particular things in specific ways it is in the delay that my desires were changed. My attention shifted from whatever it was that I was focused on .... to Him.Suddenly the wait was over! I thought I was waiting on Him only to realize He was the One waiting on me.