Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Waiting in Trust

“Waiting times are growing and learning times. As you quiet your heart, you enter His peace. As you sense your weakness, you receive His strength. As you lay down your will, you hear His calling.” Roy Lessin



     We are a people who do not like to wait. We see it as a waste of time. We must be efficient. We must produce – now – not later. So we mutter and grumble if not audibly, under our breath, until our spirit is unsettled and our peace is lost.


     We see waiting as passive and not at all active. In truth, it takes a heck of a lot of patience and strength to wait. We must stop ourselves each time we want to do something to “make it happen.” And that takes a tremendous amount of effort on our part!

     When we can be at peace with “waiting times,” and trust that God is working, His peace will enter our hearts. When we realize that we are weak creatures, passionately loved by our Creator, we open ourselves to receive His strength. As we are able to lay down our will, we will hear His voice resonating deep within our hearts: A voice so sweet and filled with love that our waiting becomes a gift.

     Waiting produces the wonders of God: an acorn into a grand huge tree, sperm and egg into a beautiful baby, a caterpillar into a glorious butterfly. But when, in our impatience, we try to rush its coming and do not allow the time that God Himself ordained for its arrival, we foil the great plans of God.

     “For I know well the plans I have in mind for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare, not for woe! Plans to give you a future full of hope. When you call Me, when you go to pray to Me, I will listen to you. When you look for Me, you will find Me. Yes, when you seek Me with all your heart, you will find Me with you, says the Lord, and I will change your lot; I will gather you together from all the nations and all the places to which I have banished you, says the Lord, and bring you back to the place from which I have exiled you (Jeremiah 29 vs. 11-15).

     God’s ultimate plan for our lives is to be with Him, one day, in heaven. He knows each one of us more intimately than we know ourselves. He knows when each one of us will take our last breath here on earth, and waits patiently for us to abandon ourselves completely, into His Fatherly care.

    Papa knows each hurt, each wound, each disappointment, which weakened our trust in Him. His heart breaks when we believe that He was the perpetrator of our wounds, and not our companion in our sorrow. He wants to heal each wound and we must learn to trust, in His timing, and not our own.

     When we have been injured by the sins of others, God, in His permissive will, allowed it to happen. Although He did not ordain sin, He can use the offense against us, if we allow Him, for the good of our salvation. “We know that all things work for good for those who love God” (Romans 28 vs. 8).

     Let us pray for the grace, to begin to trust in God’s love and plan for us. Let us go to Him in prayer – He promises to listen. Let us look and seek Him with all our hearts – He tells us we will find Him. Let us learn that these “waiting times” are growing and learning times and not negate the work of God by demanding it is now! May we quiet our hearts, enter His peace, sense our weakness to receive His strength, and with great trust, place our will into His Fatherly heart.    

1 comment:

  1. How easily this is said Avia Joy. I trust God and give all things over to Him very easily. The problem is that I continue to take it back. I call it the "YoYo Effect". Please God, help me to trust in You completely so as to abandon myself to you and your ordaining and permissive will!

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