The Waiting: Actively Wait

Waiting comes with uncertainties and it can oftentimes feel like a standstill. We tend to not want to pick ourselves up and move on. We feel like we need that “thing” to get to the next stage; without that “thing” what can we do?

We know the word wait means “to expect” or “to look for.” But remember, it also means “to serve” — just like a waiter waits on your table at a restaurant. Our act of waiting isn’t supposed to be spent sitting around passively hoping that something will happen sometime soon. While you wait don’t just sit around waiting for life to happen, do something! Don’t just let life pass you by.

I don’t know what you are waiting on in this season. Could be a car, a house, a husband, a promotion at work or healing. Whatever it is, while you wait, make it your point of duty to go on living. Volunteer with a non-profit organization, start a business, learn a new skill, or serve at your local church. While you wait, use this time to prepare. You’re waiting for a car?  Learn how to drive. Waiting for a husband? Learn what it means to be a godly wife.

As you pray and wait for a job, go out and enlist in projects or labour that exposes you to new opportunities which may provide for your family in the interim. As you pray and wait for a relationship to be repaired, you reach out and seek to love them along the way with encouraging words and acts of kindness. Do your part as you expectantly wait for God to do His part. Waiting on the promises of God is not sitting idly by waiting for God to move, but to actively work towards those promises.

As you wait, may the Lord find you faithfully doing the work to which you were called. May He find you productively waiting around with lamps that are lit. 

Respond:

Am I actively working as I am prayerfully waiting? What can I expect from God as I wait?

Read: Psalm 38:15; Micah 7:7; Matthew 9:37-38; Ephesians 6:18

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