Are You Waiting?
There are over one hundred references to the word ‘wait’ in the Bible. It seems that people in the Bible were to wait or that they were waiting frequently. Things haven’t changed very much because we are still waiting today. Waiting seems to be one of the more difficult things that I have to do. We catch a vision of what may be and we work and wait and finally that vision comes to pass.
Before I began to preach God’s Word, He had been calling me for several years. But the timing was not right. I began over the years to wonder if what I was waiting for would come to pass. The right time finally came. God was faithful to reveal His will to me and to Jeanie (my wife) so that we had no doubt that it was the right time. Now I understand that the waiting was important. It was during the waiting that God was teaching and training me for ministry. It was during the waiting that He was developing my character for what was ahead. It was during the waiting that my faith grew and I became more and more sensitive to His Voice.
Today I am still waiting but for different things to come to pass. But while I am waiting I know that He wants me to live life each day to its fullest. I think one of the biggest lessons that I have learned from waiting is that we must not let the waiting get in the way of the living.
This devotional is from Ed Wrather’s collection “Never Give Up.”
Ed is pastor of the First Baptist Church of Sweetwater, Oklahoma.
