There’s nothing we hate more than waiting. Patience is not a virtue that we strive for because it wrecks our plans of the “now” mentality. We like things to happen when we say they are to happen in an amount of time that doesn’t take up time. Unfortunately, Jesus doesn’t work that way…he works on his time, not ours. But God is worth waiting for.

Waiting is something we never do because while we say we are waiting, we are actually finding something to do in the meantime. Think about when you are stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic…you start texting or checking Facebook on your phone. Or how about when you are waiting to hear back from an interview, you have already sent in 20 applications to other jobs in the meantime. It’s crazy how we always find something to do when we are waiting, except when we are waiting on God. It seems like the times we are waiting for God to answer that it’s easier to get mad and selfish and lose our temper rather than find something to do for him in the meantime.

In Psalm 27:14, David had to wait on God after he told him at 16 that he would one day reign as king, only to have to wait until he was 30 for it to happen. Imagine God telling you that you will have an amazing job one day, only to have to wait 14 years for it to happen. Waiting for God isn’t easy. It seems like God isn’t answering your prayers or doesn’t realize the urgency of our situation. But that kind of thinking implies that God is not in control, and that’s not a good place to be. God is worth waiting for because often God uses waiting to refresh, renew, and re-teach us. You may find yourself waiting on God to answer, but just remember that in the meantime he has already overcome the situation you are waiting to overcome.

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