I receive lists of
prayer requests that involve important life matters. The outcome of the prayer
will be crucial to how the rest of life will proceed. Most of these prayer
requests require waiting. Waiting is difficult. The process of waiting either produces the choice of anxiety or trust.
In the end we must measure what matters in the process of life and determine if we will trust that God will overpower whatever we are facing.
Does waiting matter? The right answer would be that the process of waiting does matter when we use
the time to trust God. Even so, most of us would prefer not to wait when it
comes to the true matters of life.
When you get down to it . . . there is a component of trust that requires waiting. It occurs when we have done all that we can do and the only thing left to do is trust that God is working on our behalf with perfect timing.
Isaiah allows us to see waiting from the perspective of knowing God is at work: Why would you ever complain, O Jacob, or, whine, Israel, saying, "God has lost track of me. He doesn't care what happens to me"? Don't you know anything? Haven't you been listening? God doesn't come and go. God lasts. He's Creator of all you can see or imagine. He doesn't get tired out, doesn't pause to catch his breath. And he knows everything, inside and out. He energizes those who get tired, gives fresh strength to dropouts. For even young people tire and drop out, young folk in their prime stumble and fall. But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, They run and don't get tired, they walk and don't lag behind. Isaiah 40:26-28
When you get down to it . . . there is a component of trust that requires waiting. It occurs when we have done all that we can do and the only thing left to do is trust that God is working on our behalf with perfect timing.
Isaiah allows us to see waiting from the perspective of knowing God is at work: Why would you ever complain, O Jacob, or, whine, Israel, saying, "God has lost track of me. He doesn't care what happens to me"? Don't you know anything? Haven't you been listening? God doesn't come and go. God lasts. He's Creator of all you can see or imagine. He doesn't get tired out, doesn't pause to catch his breath. And he knows everything, inside and out. He energizes those who get tired, gives fresh strength to dropouts. For even young people tire and drop out, young folk in their prime stumble and fall. But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, They run and don't get tired, they walk and don't lag behind. Isaiah 40:26-28
So, how do we wait
and make the next 53 days of summer count?
Refuse to be anxious.
Trust God.
Believe God is working.
Be strengthened.
Learning with you to KICK START the day trusting God while waiting,
Trust God.
Believe God is working.
Be strengthened.
Learning with you to KICK START the day trusting God while waiting,
Pastor
Kerrie
(written
by Kerrie Palmer © 2010 All Rights Reserved)
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