One of the most important exhortations in God's Word is that of waiting on Him.
There are almost 200 verses about this matter. Why is it so hard?
One might think that it is not as difficult for the cautious Christian to hunker down and just wait and watch for the Lord. Not so.
It is a matter of faith versus flesh.
Soldier of The Cross, the natural thing is to want the solution now. The sense is that the matter needs to be resolved, and with a touch of emergency. The natural thing is to do even guaranteed fruitless things, just so there is a feeling of addressing the matter. The natural thing is to talk to everyone and anyone who might be able to exercise an influence. The natural thing is to worry.
I have been in life and death situations and know that there are times when it is essential to not only knock on doors, but to kick and to pound. I have been in airports in the tiniest and most obscure countries of the world and have had to get on a plane that has been either canceled or overbooked. I know what it means to stand for hours and insist that there will be another plane scheduled, even when the agent thinks I am daft. I know what it means to think someone you care about will be imprisoned or tortured or killed if you are not there in time. You do all you can and then you prayerfully tackle the impossible.
God has never been late.
Herein lies the problem: it is faith that enables the Soldier to advance without guarantee of ”success". So, without reliance on God, there is hope only in the foreseeable.
Faith is a frontier. Are you willing to move into the formerly unknown? We who are His have the only guarantee. We serve a Sovereign Lord who has made promises, and He has never failed. Is there any matter in which you can say "God failed me"?
Do you believe Him? He said He would "withhold no good thing. . . “ Is it, or is it not true?
Why did He ask David to wait until he heard the sound of marching in the tops of the Mulberry trees? (I Chronicles
What difference does it make? It does not matter. It was God's plan, and it included waiting, assurance and recognition of His deliverance.
It is the same for you. He has not changed. He cares for you just as much as He did His Servant David. He cares about your job. He cares about your thought life. Your marriage. Your reputation. Your depression. Your grief. Your sickness. Your children. Your finances.
He cares, and He is on the way.
Tell Him. Agree with Him.
Lord Jesus, there is nothing but you. I stand before you now and declare that I will wait for you and I will submit to anything and everything that pleases you. I do not need to understand and I do not need to have anything on my own schedule.
I want to learn to wait for you. It does not feel good now, but I am asking you to change me. Oh, Lord, please do the thing in the deepest recesses of my heart in order to bring about your own likeness in me.
By faith and according to your Word, I hereby claim the victory that is mine in your name.
Change me, change me, Oh Jesus, please;
All of my heart and life, oh Jesus seize;
Teach me to live out my life on my knees.
Change me, change me, Jesus.