Learning to Wait
Learning to Wait
Many times in our lives, we want things to happen for which we may have been praying for so long. We are waiting on our healing, waiting on our new job, waiting on a wife or husband to be. We are even waiting on our big break.
Many times in our lives, we want things to happen right now, right away. We are waiting on love, good health, a surgery such as a heart or liver transplant, a promotion at work, relief in our personal finances, legal matters and paperwork to be resolved, a court order, and financial security. Many times, we also find ourselves waiting on God.
Many times when we are waiting, we get desperate, angry, anxious, and tend to blame people close to us or around us because it is taking too long. Then, we treat others with contempt and manipulation.
Many times, in our lives, we want what we want so badly that we end up hurting ourselves and missing the blessings God has for us. We get angry with God and abandon His Torah to pursue what we think is very important to us. We forget to wait on Him. We forget to follow Him.
We find ourselves wanting to force God’s hand, forcing the hand of people around us, and sacrificing the opportunities of others for our own plan and agenda.
God wants you to know today that your waiting comes with a sacrifice of benefits. He wants you to know that your waiting comes with rewards that benefit you and others. We need to think about the master plan God has for each one of us, but He also has a master plan for us as one body of believers. Therefore, sometimes we must wait because there are other people involved in God’s plan, events in someone else’s life. Yeshua delivers us from the anguish, suffering, and struggle when we wait.
What has He delivered you from? What didn’t happen in your life that you wanted so much which today you can look back and see the hand of God? What has God saved you from because of a desire that did not come true? Sometimes, waiting can be painful and most of the time, we do not understand it. However, God’s benefits are far more rewarding.