While I'm Waiting

Impatience can be coupled with irritability and restlessness. It can lead to worry and stress, which create further problems not only in our own lives, but in the lives of those around us. It's hard to comprehend. The Good News (literally) is that we don't have to understand. We aren't meant to understand God's purposes or timing.

Isaiah 40: 27-31  NIV Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD; my cause is disregarded by my God?" Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary and  His understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall, but those who hope (or wait upon KJV) in the LORD will renew their strength. The will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not be faint.

Isn't that beautiful? We don't have to understand. How stressful it can be to try to understand, but He says we don't have to because we can't. Even scientists who have spent hundreds of years and billions of dollars in resources can't completely understand how the world came to be because He created it, not just the earth, but the stars and the other planets. Everything in the universe was made by God.

I'm 25 years old. I'm a student, wife, mother, sonographer, and at home business owner. I'm always tired and ready for a nap. I make mistakes, some small and others too painful to remember. God, on the other hand, manages to watch over me, with all my petty human problems and comforts me. He does it for everyone who calls on the name of Jesus. How is it that He does this, along with being the Creator of everything and still manages to not grow tired or weary?  We can't understand it because we can't fathom it. His capacity is beyond our understanding.

For several years, I prayed for a new job. I didn't feel like it's where God wanted me. I was angry at first because it had been so long and He still hadn't gotten me out of it. One day, the song, "While I'm Waiting" came on the radio. I realized that God may not want me at that job forever, but at that moment, He just wanted me to wait, to be patient, to serve Him and to be obedient. I did, and a year later, He has made so many changes in my life, it's unreal. I'm now able to be a stay-at-home mom, aside from a few days a month that I work at my new job. My previous work schedule didn't allow me to participate in a lot of activities, but now I am a student at the wonderful Guido Bible Institute again. I couldn't be happier.

God can use us wherever we are, if we just wait. By believing in Jesus, surrendering our lives and submitting to His will, we have a new life with new strength. We know we will one day be in Heaven with Him.


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