Waiting

If there is one thing I don't think I’m good at, it would be waiting. I hate it…. ok, ok hate is a pretty strong word. I dislike it very much. I have been this way for as long as I can remember. 

Just before I was to write this blog post, I had to wait for my computer start up, and I was slightly irritated by that. 

When my “High Speed internet” turns into slow speed internet, or not-at-all-internet I become disgruntled.

I had to go to the hospital yesterday and I ended up… you guessed it.. wait. A

Again. 

I don’t like to wait.

Chances are, you don't like to wait, either. 

We’re all used to an instant society; we want what we want when we wants it. We don’t like to wait. 

But, in God’s economy, life often times means waiting.

I was reading these words in in Psalm 40 this morning: 

I waited patiently for the Lord to help me,

    and he turned to me and heard my cry.

2 He lifted me out of the pit of despair,

    out of the mud and the mire.

He set my feet on solid ground

    and steadied me as I walked along.

3 He has given me a new song to sing,

    a hymn of praise to our God.

Many will see what he has done and be amazed.

    They will put their trust in the Lord.

4 Oh, the joys of those who trust the Lord,

    who have no confidence in the proud

    or in those who worship idols. (NLT2)

God does something to us, rather in us, when we wait. 

TBH, waiting is no fun. I’ve been waiting for something for a very long time, and it still hasn’t happened yet. I’m not sure when/if it will ever happen. 

It seems that I am literally stuck in the first two words of this psalm: “I waited.” I don’t think I can even go any farther. I can’t say that I waited patiently; because sometimes I simply don’t. 

But I want to. 

I want to be in a position where I do wait for the Lord, on the Lord. 

I want to be in this position, because this is where God is.

In the waiting. 

Ps 34:18 "The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”(NIV)

Ps 145:18 The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Isa 40:27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD; my cause is disregarded by my God"?

 28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.

 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;

 31 but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. (NIV)

God is close to each one of us who are in the waiting. God has His arms open wide, waiting to embrace those of us who are waiting, and He invites us to come, just as we are, and He will give us what we need. Himself. 

And getting God Himself is better than what we were originally waiting for. 

Lord, help us as we wait. Help us to See you in the waiting