I’ve never been good at waiting. Waiting has often seemed to me to be a waste of time, a necessary inconvenience in the real stuff of life, in what’s really going to happen. I should confess that sometimes in the midst of one life experience, I was already in my mind planning the next one, imagining what would happen next.
Waiting is a part of life for everyone. Yet sometimes there are seasons of waiting that seem to go on and on, and there’s little you can do but wait. Those can be difficult times. We can draw on the resources of faith, prayer, reading the Word and meditating to make our waiting into a time of growth and centering.
Reading the Bible reveals that our waiting time is not as much about delaying action as it is about waiting in God’s presence, in God’s word and in God’s will. Instead of a wasted exercise, the Word of God reveals that waiting allows us to be impacted by God.
This message is excerpted from “Waiting” by Linda Johnson Seyenkulo in the September 2015 Gather magazine.
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