During your season of waiting, the posture of your heart is very important. Do you find yourself being impatient? Are frustration, selfishness and anger growing in your heart? Let’s be honest for a minute, it is true that the fruit of the Spirit is patience, but nobody likes to wait. Many times when I go to a fast-food restaurant to get food, I find myself frustrated and angry in my heart because they take forever to serve the meal. And because of the frustration and the anger, I always end up asking for a refund. Can you relate?
If this is how we respond to people, with frustration, impatience, selfishness and anger, what happens in our hearts when God makes us wait?
God wants you to live with a constant enduring sense that He is a good Father. He takes delight in showering you with wonderful blessings. He loves you and takes great pleasure in moving on your behalf, but sometimes He will delay His blessings to examine what’s in your heart. He waits on purpose and it is not that He doesn’t want to bless you. He’s after a purpose greater than your immediate blessing. God doesn’t want to just fix your problems, and give you the desires of your heart; He wants to transform you in the process.
That impatience, frustration, selfishness, anger, and all the other emotions you feel during your time of waiting, God wants to work on those with you. He also wants you to grow in contentment. If the thing you are waiting for does not come, would God be enough for you? Would you be content with “just a relationship” with God?
God does not want you to respond to your season of waiting with bitterness. He wants you to find Him as your great joy and satisfaction. He wants to know that when there is a delay, it won’t create a downward spiral of impatience, frustration, selfishness and anger in your heart. Waiting can be a gift or a curse, the choice is up to you. You can choose to see the light at the end of the tunnel as the promise of hope. Or, you can go on living with bitterness.
Many times, too, the posture of your heart determines the length of your wait. If it will take 3 years for you to learn what it truly means to be patient, then that is what it is. God will delay as long as it takes for you to learn the things you need to learn in your season of waiting. God wants us to be content with Him because He alone is enough. I understand that this season isn’t easy, especially when you are surrounded by people who are enjoying the things you are waiting on God for. I know that waiting does come with a lot of struggles, but it also comes with a great reward. So rejoice and consider this season of waiting as a gift from your Father who deeply cares about you.
Respond:
- How’s your heart in this season of waiting? Are you enjoying every moment; are you learning what it means to be content, and are you experiencing Jesus as your great joy and satisfaction? Or are you dying for this waiting period to be over?
- Search out these scriptures: Philippians 3:7-8, Philippians 4:11-12, Psalm 130:5
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Angelisa is a Jesus enthusiast, Worship leader & Christian youth leader. She considers herself to be the old-fashioned type of girl who loves spicy food and belly bottom laughter. Among her passions are singing, working with children, and encouraging others.