What Are You Waiting For?

We wait for everything. For the washing to finish. For our husbands to get home. For the phone to ring. For the baby to wake. For the mail to come. For a car to pull up, returning our child safely home. For a job. For answers to prayer. With so much experience, we’re remarkably unskilled at waiting well. Waiting seems to us a colossal waste of time.

But the fact is that while we are waiting, God is working. To move us to where he wants us to be. To bring about what will make us eventually Christ-like, though not necessarily immediately comfortable.

What are you waiting for? And more to the point, how well are you waiting for it?

Psalm 40:1-3: ” I waited, Lord for you to answer my prayer. You listened and pulled me from a lonely pit full of mud and mire. You let me stand on a rock with my feet firm, and you gave me a new song, a song of praise to you. Many will see this, and  they will honour and trust you, the Lord God”.

Psalm 130:5-6: “with all my heart, I am waiting, LORD, for you! I trust your promises. I wait for you more eagerly than a soldier on guard duty waits for the dawn. Yes, I wait more eagerly than a soldier on guard duty waits for the dawn”.

Jude 1:20: “Dear friends, keep building on the foundation of your most holy faith, as the Holy Spirit helps you to pray”.

From the Moms Devotional Bible

Contributed by Shelley Hall