Different Waiting

The song above speaks of one kind of waiting.  Waiting for God’s promises to be fulfilled. It’s not wishful thinking, crossing one’s fingers that such and such will happen.  It is with certain hope that what God has promised, as confirmed by your accountability group or spiritual companions, will come to pass.

 

The other kind of waiting has to do with exactly what one must do with one’s life, gifts, training and skills.  I think of Queen Esther who was “born for such a time as this.”  I think we are all born for many “such a time as this” seasons.

 

We may not see clearly now as we look through a glass (see Paul in Corinthians) but we will see clearly when it matters.  We are directed in different ways based on our personalities, characters and dispositions.  We hear, we see, we feel, we think, we rationalize…but in the end it is the obeying and being faithful that really matter.  The wonder of it all is that God allows us to respond or not to respond to what God has for us to receive, to do, to enjoy, to struggle through…

 

So we wait for our marching orders.  But while waiting we remain faithful.  When we get our orders, we obey and serve faithfully.  When we finish that work, we finish it faithfully and then wait to hear again faithfully.

 

Sometimes God points us to the time to let the ground lay fallow.  To allow our spirit to rest and be restored and replenished.  Sabbath rest is to be kept faithfully, too.

 

We must be both Mary and Martha.  Then we sometimes have to be Lazarus, too.  Dying and laying in the tomb until we are called forth to new life, new work, new season of faithfulness.

 

Peace