“Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried;
Quietly, patiently, lovingly, God replied.
I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate . . .
And the Master so gently said, “Wait…” -Russel Kelfer (from the poem Wait)
Wait. This is such a foreign word to our modern culture. When life seems to move faster with each new day, and rest time is filled with checking emails and a microwave dinner, “wait” is a word no one wants to hear.
However, God always manages to do His best work in counter-culture ways.
Countless times in the Bible, God allows His children to go through waiting periods. Men and women like David, Abraham, Sarah, Moses and even Jesus all had to wait for God’s perfect timing in their lives.
But waiting can be hurtful, painful and even frustrating. How can God be in that?
The Wait poem goes on to say…
“You’d never know, should your pain quickly flee,
What it means that My grace is sufficient for thee.
Yes, your dearest dreams overnight would come true,
But, oh, the loss, if you missed what I’m doing in you.”
God is more concerend about the condition of our hearts, then giving us everthing we want. He cares for us so much, that He will not always fix everything right away. He knows that sometimes we learn best about His goodness, faithfulness and trustworthiness by going through the fire with Him.
When you surrender your will to God and wait on the Lord, you are left with a guarantee that God will work all things out for the good! And that makes the wait well worth it.