Waiting is difficult for even for people gifted with patience. It’s typically in our seasons of waiting that we hit a point where it seems logical that God would finally remove us from the wait, but that tends to be exactly when he wants to mold us in the waiting. God has a way of making us wait long enough for us to drop every earthly thing we are clinging to, ditch every wrong assumption about God, and stop relying on ourselves. God wants to use the waiting to deepen our faith so that we are ready to receive what is on the other side of the waiting.
But waiting is hard work. Not everyone who waits can be shaped by God. If you choose not to embrace the waiting and to stop pursuing Christ, then the waiting will cripple you. It’s only when we keep our eyes on Christ in the midst of the waiting that he will mold our hearts to look more like his.
We have to trust that seasons of waiting are necessary for our own spiritual growth and the growth of God’s kingdom. After all, God is not wasteful. He doesn’t speak in vain, he does nothing by accident, and no plan of his is without purpose. He will never make us wait because he enjoys abusing his power. The waiting we endure will always be the exact amount of time needed to accomplish his work in and through us. Once we step foot into eternity with Jesus, we will probably laugh at the amount of time we spent waiting on God. We may even say, “I would’ve waited a lot longer if I had known this is what eternity had in store.”
Reflection/Discussion Question: Why is waiting necessary to sharpen our faith?
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