Waiting on God

Posted by Gary Chevalier | Comments (2)

Category : faith, faithfulness, Frustration, Waiting

As a church staff, we've begun reading a 31 day devotional called, "Waiting on God" by Andrew Murray. It was written and published back in the 1800's, but has been reprinted this year. I'm still in the early chapters of the book, but I'm finding it very fascinating!

Today's reading was from Psalm 104. There's a bunch of verses, so I won't bother repeating them here, but the general gist is this: ALL creation waits on God. The grass waits on God to make it rain, the lion waits on God to provide it prey, etc. The point he so eloquently makes is that even we, God's prized creations, must wait on Him as a part of life.

Few of us enjoy waiting...my wife would rather be late to a movie and miss the beginning than take the chance of getting there early and waiting 5 or 10 minutes for the movie to start. We're very much a "microwave generation," and waiting on God is not only hard to do - it's totally foreign to us.

What I'm learning right now is to be obedient in the waiting. I do my very best to be faithful, obedient, and full of praise when God is rockin' and rollin' around me...when He is obviously blessing me and His hand and plan are evident to me. For the most part, my humanity and sinful nature aside, I think I do. But it's a whole lot harder when He seems silent and things seem to be derailing around me! Even still, it is my duty as His creation to wait upon Him. If I truly trust Him and place my life in His hands, then I will wait for Him to do His will. Again, not easy, but necessary.

The challenge? Find JOY in the waiting...not in dreaming of what He's going to do for you one day when the waiting is over, but simply as one of His creations who is waiting for God to dole out what we need at His given time. I haven't got it mastered yet, but I believe that I've taken the first steps that way this week!