If you’ve kept up with me on my blog, Facebook or Twitter recently, you may already know that my family has spent pretty much all of 2009 (so far) waiting. Waiting for good news. Waiting for income. Waiting for the next step, the next piece, the next date on the schedule. Waiting.
Our country is waiting. Waiting for recovery. For the recession to end. For wars to stop. For congressional leaders to get their acts together. Waiting.
And yet, the truth is that as believers, waiting on the next thing isn’t what we’re supposed to be doing. Waiting on Someone is.
I’m going through Beth Moore’s Esther study at church and she said something that has stuck with me for a couple of weeks now. “We have to stop waiting on the Thing and start waiting on God.”
Seems simple enough, but how often do we really do it? I know I struggle with this. I wait for what I think is the direction God is pointing me in and then I stop waiting on Him and start waiting for the Thing I think He’s bringing.
But what if I’m wrong?
Who am I to say I can read God’s mind?
Who am I to assume that God won’t CHANGE His mind?
No, instead, I need to wait on Him. Period. End of story. Nothing else to say.
Waiting on Him frees us up, doesn’t it? No, I’m not saying that all responsibility washes off our backs now, but we are not responsible for the end result. God is.
We are responsible for listening.
We are responsible for obeying. Ouch.
Following is okay. Obeying can be tougher. Waiting in obedience can leave a mark, can’t it?
But we wait. And we listen.
We look forward to seeing God’s handiwork and not our own.
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Sara,
You guys were on my mind this morning and for the better part of the day. I hope you’re doing well. You’re always in my prayers.
~Cat