for someone we love while they are undergoing surgery.Waiting is difficult; however, waiting is a part of living. The Psalmist wrote about waiting with hope:
for a diagnosis.
for an answer from an employer.
for an estranged husband or wife or child to return.
for things to get better.
I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait,
And in His word do I hope.
My soul waits for the Lord
More than the watchmen for the morning;
Indeed, more than the watchmen for the morning.(Pslams 130: 5-6)
The Psalmist used the words wait and hope interchangeably. In the ancient days, the watchmen kept watch at night . . . knowing . . . without doubt . . . . that morning would come. Likewise, we are to wait and hope in God and His word with the same trust and anticipation. In hope, we know that God always makes a way through our circumstances regardless of how impossible that would seem.
Waiting for a way through can seem ridiculous and downright useless without hope. The thing is . . . waiting . . . is about putting our hope in Christ rather than in another individual or circumstance. Unfortunately, we can get so bound up in the difficulties that we gradually lose hope.
We need to look . . . really look . . . and see that even in the most difficult circumstances . . . God is doing a new work in our life. God has given us a specific word we can hope in:
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.(Isaiah 43:19)
So. When we wait, we wait asking the Spirit to open our eyes to see that God is making a way through the wilderness and wasteland of life.
Wait with confident hope.
Wait on God.
Have hope in the Word of God.
Focus on God and see that He is doing a new thing.
Believe God is making a way through the places of life that are like a wilderness and wasteland. .
Learning to Kick Start the day by waiting with hope that God is making a way through the wilderness and wasteland.
(written by Kerrie Palmer © 2010 All Rights Reserved)