Just looking at the title of today can make me sigh. I don’t like to wait. Do you? I don’t like having to wait in long lines, or being put on hold having to wait (I don’t care what type music is playing), I don’t like to wait. If we were honest with ourselves, we have become a generation that doesn’t like to wait. Even when heating our food in a microwave, we find that can take too long! We don’t want to wait for appointments, we don’t want to wait in traffic. We don’t want to wait for an item to arrive in the mail, we want to check online to see if they have it in stock and drive and get it the same day.
I remember as a young girl, ordering something off a cereal box. Didn’t we all do that at one time or another? Anyway, we had to send the order form in, wait till they received it and then wait till they sent it. It felt like forever till we received it. Depending on what it was, you may have even forgot you ordered it, which raises the question, did you really need it, if you couldn’t remember you ordered it, but we will save that for another day. My point is no one likes to wait. We are tired before we start, because we know it will take awhile. Yet waiting is a part of life.
How about waiting for God to answer our prayer request or waiting for God to show us where we are to be, or maybe for a healing from Him that He just seems to be ignoring.
I looked up the word wait and this is what it says: stay where one is or delay action until a particular time or until something else happens. Hmmm sounds frustrating doesn’t it?
This past week, I saw a verse posted on a friend’s profile and the words jumped off the page. I knew in an instant it was this week’s message. If you are familiar with scripture you will recognize it right away. If you aren’t familiar with it, I am pleased to be able to share this nugget with you.
“But those who trust in the LORD will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31 NLT.
However, the translation I read was from NASB and it reads….
“Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.”
A third translation is the NIV. It reads: “but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint”.
My jaw simply dropped and I had to tell someone about what I just read and they were surprised too. I can’t tell you enough the joy I have when I know the Spirit is teaching me something new buried in the bible. I read this verse for years, but never, never saw this before. Here it goes: when I am waiting, I am not to be sitting and doing nothing. I am not to be tired or frustrated. Look again at those words, I am to be on the move. I am to still be doing what I have always been doing until the Lord tells me otherwise. I am to do this with a renewed strength, not head down and poor me attitude. I am to run and I am to walk. I am to be active the whole time. The LORD will give me renewed strength and I will not become weary. I will also soar high like the eagles. Who has not stood in awe when watching a beautiful eagle fly effortlessly through the sky? We can be just like that! Also did you notice each translation used a different word for wait? They used trust and hope! I am to trust and have hope while waiting! How, you ask? Simply by trusting Him and asking Him daily, even hourly, for the right attitude and strength to handle the task before you. Change may come or it may not. We are not to be having a pity party for ourselves. We are to be active and continuing on. Still praying, still asking, still hoping, still trusting and still waiting, but not like the English definition. I am currently in a time of waiting and not sure when or if change will come, but I know sitting and feeling sorry for myself, isn't what I am suppose to be doing.
I want to run and walk without becoming weary and I want to soar with the eagles, don’t you! Keep that in mind the next you find you are in waiting. It makes it a lot easier to do.
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