I hate waiting.

I am so impatient and it drives my husband crazy. I hate waiting on the garage door to open all the way or the pin-resetter-thingie (yes, that is the technical term) at the bowling alley to go back up - I am flying into the garage or whipping my ball down the alley before I really should. So far, no accidents or major mishaps, but I'm sure it's just a matter of time before I'm taught the lesson I need to learn.

And today I find myself waiting. Waiting on a phone call, waiting on an answer, waiting to see what God is going to do in my life. Just like I have been the past month or so. Waiting, waiting, waiting.

And I don't like it.

So I began to think about waiting on the Lord and started looking through Psalms, where I knew the phrase could be found. Wow, does the psalmist have such great confidence in God, even when he is waiting. Ps 130:5 "I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in His word I put my hope." Ps 38:15 "I wait for You O Lord, You will answer, O Lord my God." Ps 33:10 "We wait in hope for the Lord, He is our help and our shield." Ps 27:14 "Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord."

There is hope in waiting for the Lord, there are answers, there is help and there is strength. It's so hard to wait because it means we feel like we're not doing anything! We want to just fix it, and fix it now. But waiting is not a lazy response, it's not a desperate response, it's not a last resort. It's a Biblical response, it's a trusting response, and it should be our first instinct. To trust God, to patiently wait on Him to work out whatever it is that He is doing.

So I'm gonna continue to wait. I'm gonna give that whole patience thing a shot, and put my hope in the Lord and in His word. I'm gonna be strong and take heart, knowing He will answer.

Emily

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