Waiting on God can be so difficult. If we sit still too long, we quickly get back up to work it all out for ourselves, all the while making unnecessary errors.

 

Whether we are waiting on an answered prayer or waiting on a coming direction, learning to be still is a sign of our growing in Jesus.

 

If it is His desire, then we can trust Him to bring it to pass in His way and in His timing. Our helping things along can be costly, as well as wearing.

 

What it is with us being in such a hurry? Perhaps we’ve not done enough inner work with Him, so He is kindly allowing a slower pace to work in us His grace.

 

If we get our way too soon our character may not be quite ready to handle the pressure and again, maybe the WISE ONE knows we’ve yet to stay with Him enough to relish in the deeper things He needs us to know.

 

I, like you, have not perfected waiting. I can be found mostly pacing. Yet, I’m learning if I’ll wait He will bring about things perfectly and supernaturally. I’ll know beyond the shadow of a doubt that He was the Author of it all.

 

It’s a wonderful feeling to know you kept your nose out of His business by staying postured in prayer in the stillness.

 

This grand imagination of mine can have a free for all in any given moment and walk me right into double trouble. I can promise you from experience that walking yourself into it is much easier than walking yourself out of it.

 

So maybe lets you, and me, learn better how to wait on the Lord.

 

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But those who wait on 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)