Wait.

I am always grateful to share life with others in the good times as well as the difficult times.  If I’m honest, there are times I want an immediate fix, especially when things are dark and difficult.   I want this more often than I would like to admit.  The thing is . . . to experience the best life, for others as well as myself, I need to let go of what I want, seeking God, asking what He wants, trusting Him to make all things new . . . . willingly waiting for the fruit of His ongoing work to be seen.  But.  There are those moments, when it seems too hard to wait, when there's unanswered questions about the way things are going, and concern for the days ahead.

Even so,  I have learned God always makes a way. Period. It's worth the wait.

Consider.
“In the wilderness prepare 
   the way for the LORD; 
make straight in the desert 
   a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be raised up, 
   every mountain and hill made low; 
the rough ground shall become level, 
   the rugged places a plain. (Isaiah 40:3,4, TNIV). 


We need to calm ourselves, there is no need to be rushed; God is present and has promised to make a way through it all.  But.

 It's a choice to wait for God to make a way in the desert, to raise a valley up, to move a mountain, to level the uneven ground, and to make rocky places plain. 

When we take matters in our own hands, responding to the circumstance rather than to God, making excuses for going our own way, failing to seek Him first, then, we miss His marvelous, mysterious, and miraculous way through it. And. Rather than being released from the power of the stuff, we are more pressured and overwhelmed by it.

So.  Calm down.  Refuse to rush ahead. Wait.  Remember God will make a way through it all.

Learning to Kickstart the day waiting,
Kerrie

(written by Kerrie Carlisle Palmer © 2011 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)