In my adult life I feel like I've spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen...here are a few:
1. to finish college
2. to get pregnant (took almost 10 years)
3. to wait for our daughter to come home for NICU (3 months)
4. to buy our first home
5. to finish remodeling our first home so we could move in
6. to get word about new jobs
7. to move from the RV to our new to us house
...and so much more.
You can make your own list- maybe like me, you feel you're playing the waiting game too. It's a test of patience...and I'm not saying I pass it.
Tonight as Beth Moore spoke she said something like this:
Don't spend your life waiting on events. Spend your life waiting on GOD! He's the only One worth waiting on.That'll preach! Waiting on events always has that beautiful let down feeling after it's all done. Think about it...when we are pregnant...we don't say things like, "I can't wait to change 12 diapers a day". "I can't wait to be up all night with a fussy baby". All we think about is this picture of a woman in a pretty rocker and white gown rocking a baby and singing a lullaby. But, reality, or the beautiful letdown comes when we realize that woman doesn't exsist. The norm in life is a ragged mommy with spitup on her sweat shirt (which hasn't been changed in 3 days) rocking in the recliner and falling asleep way before the fussy baby does! It's not that it's a horrible life....it's just a phase of life.
When you fix your eyes on Jesus, the beautiful letdown will never come, because you'll be waiting on Him for everything. As He answers one prayer, or hears one concern, you move onto the next- and life continuously revolves around waiting on Him....and HE will give you strength as the eagles. When we wait for events, we lose sleep, we worry, we anticipate, we stress...but in waiting for the LORD we receive strength for the waiting, endurance for the journey and hope for the favor of God to shine on us.
As I am in a state of waiting right now, these words encouraged me. Maybe they will encourage you too.
2 comments:
Gina,
This is so true about waiting on God. No matter how long it takes we will never be disappointed.
Love and Hugs ~ Kat
Love it. We have been waiting over a year since Jeremy obtained his Bachelor's Degree for God to provide us a higher-paying job with a promise to climb higher on that ladder. We wait. Still. But, it's to the point that we have just decided that while in this time of waiting God is teaching us some valuable lessons, and I finally get that now. It's really a gift, but it can be hard to see it that way. I think He has us right where we are meant to be for the time being. I'm cool with that. ;)
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