What are you waiting for?

We are all waiting for something. 

Career to take off?

Marriage?

Friendships?

Vindication?

Financial relief?

Wounds to heal?

Suffering to get better?

Sickness to end?

Retirement?

Jesus to come?

Waiting on the Lord is a theme throughout the Bible. 

In the 66 books of the Bible we are called to “wait on the Lord“ 116 times. Waiting on the Lord is a key part of what it means to have faith.

First, you pray for something, then you wait.

Sometimes you wait an hour and the prayer is answered, but most of the time you pray and wait weeks, months, years or even decades for God to grant your request.

Waiting is about trusting:

trusting God that his timing is best.

It’s also trusting God when he says yes and when he says no or when he says not yet. Many people get frustrated with God while they are in his waiting room.

What is he doing?

Why isn’t he answering?

Why is he withholding?

To be honest with you, I often feel the same way. There is a particular thing I have been asking God about for the last year that seems to go unanswered. All the while I pray and I wait. Sometimes I feel frustrated, other times I feel content that his timing and answer is best. 

So what do we pray while we are in the waiting room? 

Below is one of the many Psalms that touch on this theme. These Psalms are in the Bible for you to pray when you don’t know what to pray.

Psalm 130

My Soul Waits for the Lord

A Song of Ascents.

1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!

2  O Lord, hear my voice!

Let your ears be attentive

  to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

3  If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,

  O Lord, who could stand?

4  But with you there is forgiveness,

  that you may be feared.

5  I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,

  and in his word I hope;

6  my soul waits for the Lord

  more than watchmen for the morning,

  more than watchmen for the morning.

7  O Israel, hope in the Lord!

  For with the Lord there is steadfast love,

  and with him is plentiful redemption.

8  And he will redeem Israel

  from all his iniquities.

So keep praying, keep waiting, keep the faith! 

God knows what he is doing and will give you what is best even when he says “wait.”

“They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not be faint.”

Isaiah 40:31

Grace and peace,

Pastor Harvey