Finding God as we wait.

     There is hardly anyone that likes to wait.  Toddlers are notorious for their inability to wait. Teenagers impetuously want things to happen instantaneously and don’t have time to wait. Adults throughout their normal days will become annoyed at lines, other people and service counters.  We all struggle with waiting, yet we all know the cliché, “good things come to those who wait.”  Still most of the time, we cannot see anything good in any waiting. We live in a culture where know one really has to wait for anything.  We like instant gratification and have become accustomed to it but that doesn’t mean that we are really blessed by it or that we learn a single thing as we grab what we want, when we want it.

     Something good does happen to those that wait.  It happens in the simplest of situations, as we learn the rewards of patience and to be become more self-controlled in our anger.  It definitely happens in the hardest situations even though we seldom note it. As we wait … we learn trust, patience develops at a deeper level and finally perseverance strengthens us as we go through things. 

     Waiting upon God, elicits trusting Him more while we securely stand in grace sufficient for all situations and time. We can count on His sustaining, shaping and masterful hand to be upon us.  Waiting upon God in faith does bring good things to all those that wait.  Look around as you wait and see what God is doing in you and for you. You might be surprised.  Srm

“I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope. I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning,  more than watchmen wait for the morning” (Psalm 130:5-6).