Waiting...

I just gave a sister-friend some advice, I said "don't rush it and don't get overwhelmed but wait on God to deal and sort things out in you and through you". In hind-sight I see that my advice, as true as it is, can be harder to accomplish than just spouting off a few words. I think wait is one of the top most used words in the Bible. Noah waited for the waters to recede, The Israelites waited, everybody had to wait at some point and if they did not... trouble befell them.

So, how do you WAIT? What if all of life starts closing in, your heart just can't take another beating and you are just barely hanging on? What then, how long can you hold onto the rope? Well, the answer is... not long enough.

Waiting means giving God the burden and trusting Him to unload it as He sees fit. I know, for those of us that don't really know how to trust... that's a lesson that has to come first. We have to be able to trust to be able to survive. We are not made to handle all that life dishes out but, Jesus was and through Him, we can bear anything. We can not face the sins of this world and have hope. God loved us and made a way, He built a bridge between us that overcame the sin and the bridge was Jesus. Jesus carried the weight for all of our sin (past, present and future) to the cross. So if He can give His all for us we can safely trust in Him for what we can not see.

Waiting... to me, means having to trust God and know that he has a better view.