Waiting

“But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; 

they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”
Isaiah 40:31

Waiting.
In my life waiting ranks as one of the most difficult of disciplines, if not the most difficult.
Why should I, why must we, wait especially when heard the clear voice, the promise of the Lord.
I don’t know about you but I want to grab it, to run with it RIGHT NOW.
I understand how it is that Sarah and Abraham grew impatient…after all, God Himself had certainly
promised them. They waited for more than a decade for their promised son-
who among us in this culture would wait even a fraction of that length of time?
Throughout our own lives we will we find ourselves in that dreaded waiting place,

the place where our minds may resort to scheming (unsuccessfully) to try and figure out a way to “help” God.
Consider the forty week human gestation period.
Why didn’t the Lord make this a four week process instead of forty?
God uses the process of waiting to develop maturity in each of us-if we let Him.
In those times, we have no choice but to stop striving, the cliche”Let go, Let God” applies here.
Patience, perseverance, and faith (things hoped for that are unseen at the moment) work
hand in hand, beloved.
Trust the Lord, stop vainly trying to lean on shallow understanding, stop trying to micro-manage
the Melech HaOlam, the Master of the whole universe.
He hasn’t forgot even the smallest of promises and He is faithful to complete every one of them.