Jeremy Deweerdt

I have sat in a lot of airports lately.  I don’t travel as much as some, so I really have no room to complain, but even as I write this blog, I’m waiting two MORE hours for my flight to leave.  I’ve already been here two hours.  Waiting.

I hate to wait.  Most do.  Rarely do I come across a person who LOVES waiting.  Yet many times in life, we wait.  If you think about it, we probably wait more in our spiritual life than even in our physical life.  This can be very frustrating.  In fact, in my experience with God, He usually makes me wait and rarely makes me hurry…in fact, I cannot think of the last time He made me hurry.  Probably the better word would be that there was an “urgency” about something… but let’s get back to the waiting thing.

Psalms 40: 1  ”I waited patiently for the Lord.  He turned to me and heard my cry.”

I have for years focused on the last part of that verse… He turned and heard my cry… that is amazing.  The God of the universe hears me.  But that nasty word in the beginning of the verse… “patiently!!!”  The Psalmist had to wait patiently.  Ahhhh.  I don’t want to hear that!  I want God to turn and hear my cry and take immediate action.  Can’t God at least Twitter me what He is up to?  That would make the waiting easier!

Yet if we never waited, we would never have to trust God and have faith.  Faith most of the time also requires waiting patiently.  Can something good come out of the waiting period?  Absolutely!  God works in your life while you wait.  God establishes our faithfulness during the waiting period.  Heck, God can even give you something to blog about during the waiting period. :0

What is God teaching you during your waiting period?