Just you wait, just a little bit longer. . .
Psalm 27:14 Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.
Psalm 33:20-22 Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His holy name. Let your mercy be upon us, Lord, just as we hope in You.
Psalm 37:7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people
Psalm 62:5 For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.
Psalm 130:5-6 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchman for the morning.
understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Lamentations 3:25 The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks Him.
Isaiah 30:18 Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore He exalts Himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for Him.
Isaiah 40:31 But those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Micah 7:7 But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me
Galatians 5:5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
James 5:7-8 Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
I have always hated waiting. Now, it is less cumbersome, now I mildly dislike it—still am not a fan but have learned that His timing is better than mine. And also, I know that I am selfish and can be arrogant and impatient. Yuck! All qualities I recognize and dislike in others.
Oh, thank You, Lord, I can see improvement, but I am so resistant to not getting my own way. Thank You, I know so many verses, I know that Your timing is better than mine, I know that IF it is Your will, my desire will come at the right time—not necessarily my time.
But I am able to more patiently wait, and even though there are things I would love to happen in my life, if it happens—BLESSING, but if not, my life is full and I have so many blessings to be thankful for daily.
Have God in my life daily, has so decreased my impatience, has almost totally omitted anxiety in my life, and has helped me grow in every area of my life.
As a younger person, I learned it was better to receive a goal if you had worked hard for it. For instance, as a teen, I wanted a larger bike, but mine was perfectly good—very serviceable with a few scuffs, scars, and a dent or two, but still in good shape. My parents had given me the bike for my fifth or sixth birthday, but now I was twelve and had a younger sister who wanted to ride it all the time. She was 5 years old, and I didn’t want her hanging with us—we certainly were doing things we were not supposed to at times, as well as going places we had been warned against going.
Anyway, my parents were not going to buy a new bicycle, but I could buy one. I received a weekly pittance (0.$25, and if I had raked the yard or done some mega activity, 0.$50) and they said I could save the money and use that to buy a bike. “That will take FOREVER, FOOORRR-EVVVEEERRRR.” Anyway, one of the first bigtime waits, goal oriented, purpose ahead and then reward of purchasing a brand new bike.
I’m unsure of how long it took to save enough. My parents spread the word to family that I was saving so I got money for birthdays, Christmas, and before too long, I had a spiffy new bike. It think I was prouder of the fact I had worked toward the goal than the actual purchase of the bike itself.
The next big wait in life was to wait until I was old enough to date. It seemed like that would be years. I was good at math, and it was easy to see that until the age came when I would be old enough, mature enough, it would be years—and then my impatient brain would break that down into months, and then more torture as I figured how many days until I got there. . .
I was my own worst enemy when it came to waiting. And yet, I had learned that waiting for something I worked for the time seemed to pass more quickly (since family had slipped a couple bucks here and there—it had not taken as long as my math skills had initially indicated!)
But life is a series of different waits, and not all of them are difficult to wait through. One waits for grades to come out while in school, waits for the bike, the age and ability to get a license to drive, to graduate high school, and then go one with whatever one has chosen to do whether it be college, a trade school, working full-time until you get it figured out, or whatever.
Waiting is part of life. Frequently, we get impatient and decide what is right for us NOW. That has brought me trouble each time I have done it—costly trouble. I have paid dearly for some of my impatience, so that I think having to pay dearly a few times, I finally learned that maybe God’s words were right. Things come in His time, and He delivers at the correct time.
I am so much better at waiting now than I used to be. And have learned and felt the blessings He has for me when I shake my finger and send the impatience demon out of my life, with one of the many quotes I have stored in my memory bank. My life is quieter, less stressful, I am not impulsively doing something then groaning asking myself WHY I had doe whatever? Why did I jump the gun? Why did I AGAIN let impatience rule and get myself into this quandary?
Thankfully, I wait now with more patience. Some things are still difficult to wait for—a diagnosis for oneself or a loved one, the healing of someone who’s been in an accident and undergoing all sorts of therapy to attain good health again, to see the escrow in your home increase as the mortgage balance decreases, to determine where your child will go to school after high school, and so many other things. Waiting, a part of life that I now am able to do with far more grace and trust.
Thank You, Lord that You have shown me the cost of waiting and trusting You over the years and for all You have blessings You have shown me and ‘mybellaviews.’
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