Wait

The Lord has been showing this week about waiting on Him. One question that constantly permeates throughout my mind is this: If we have been blessed with every spiritual blessing, like it mentions in Ephesians, why don't we have all of them now? (I don't know if this is the right answer, but it is probably an interesting way of looking at it...) I think it is because God withholds some of them from us in order to teach us invaluable lessons. He mainly does this through having us wait. Waiting is perhaps the method most used by God to chisel away at and refine our character. Unfortunately, we are terrible at waiting.

Haven't you notice that our lives run much smoother when we go through green lights, rather than sitting at the red ones? We live in a "Microwave Generation." We want everything now. Think of the difference between a TV Dinner and a real home-cooked meal. You must sacrifice quality in order to get it quicker. Doesn't that summarize things of this world all too well? Those "technological advances" intended to expedite our lives have caused us to compromise and lower our standards of quality. This is applicable to our spiritual lives, also. We wake up and look for our "quick-fix" of Scripture and claim that we spent time with the Lord. As corny as this metaphor may sound about our spiritual life - God is calling us to a Thanksgiving day feast that takes the entire day to prepare, yet we are settling for the frozen TV dinner that is still a little cold in the center. It is all summed up in the fact that we are not willing to wait on God.

Normally, when I think of waiting, I think of people mindlessly sitting in dull room, like a doctors office, awaiting to be called. I used to think that "being still before God" was equivalent to "waiting on Him." Nope. "Being still" is more of a reflective admiration of God's sovereignty over our individual lives and desires, whereas "waiting on Him" is the constant recognition of God's commitment to fulfill His promises and our active preparations to both invite and welcome His blessing. Waiting is not passive; it is proactive! If we are not constantly learning and allowing to mold our character, we are not truly waiting.

We must wait more, because we are lousy at waiting. I am praying for you all. See you soon

MTI