In some things, I am very patient, but other things, I lack patience. I hate waiting, especially when I know I can take initiative.
But there are times.
When God whispers two little frustrating words, “Be still.”
I want to throw a tantrum. I want to swing my fist up into the air, fling myself on my back, and just guttural wail at the sky above. I don’t want to be still. I don’t want to wait. I can do it myself!
Know that I am God.
Does that mean God’s going to take initiative here? Because it doesn’t seem like it. From where I’m laying flat on my back, it doesn’t look like anything is happening. Well, anything but my very bad attitude. It’s embarrassing, really.
Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. (Psalm 27:14)
Does anyone else feel that this particular verse is a bit weird? “Wait for the Lord” twice, but in the midst of the two waiting sections, the simple command of being strong and taking heart. In my head, that verse goes differently, something like: You’re going to take initiative which means you’ll need to be strong and take heart and things will happen.
Now that’s what I’m talking about! Let’s do something rather than this whole waiting thing.
And yet, this is not how it’s written. And sometimes I’m too literal, but I think this time it’s okay.
While we wait for the Lord, we are to be strong and take heart in the waiting. Nothing has stretched me more than waiting on the Lord. Never have I ever needed so much strength and heart to stick to the waiting. Did I mention I hate waiting?
To the God who moves in the Waiting.
Oh, how I love your creation
the zephyr-wind hand brushing
hair from my cheek,
Making me tangibly feel your love.
Morning fog blanketing the earth,
and I know you care.
I praise you because
you ocean-wave healing
into my life, gently and then
roaringly shape my rocky life.
You don’t leave me to myself.
You call and rush upon my life with
a love flood with depth I cannot know.
How thankful I am that your ways
include dependence upon you; and your thoughts
are constantly of me and your plan.
I praise you because you show me new life.
What About You?
Are you in a waiting time? How do you deal with this time?
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