Waiting on God?

What does it mean to wait on God? Does it mean to wait in silence, wandering if God cares? Do you wait on God with anticipating Him to act? Or do you make your own plans and expect God to follow? When trouble comes into your life, do you invite God in, and look to Him for direction? When things don’t go your way, do you wait on God for a time, and then do it your way.  What are you waiting for today?  Are you waiting for God biblically, or waiting in unbelief?

An unbelief that brings about a mistrust in God’s goodness and mercy, or are you trusting in God’s plan for your life and the lives of others?  This brings us to one important question, what does it mean to biblical wait on God? “From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him. Isaiah 64:4

What Are You Waiting For? Are some of you suffering physically, waiting for healing? Have you been laid off from your job, and are waiting for employment? Are you struggling in a relationship, and waiting for God to act? Are you lonely, waiting for God to put someone into your life? Is your life full of anxiety and worry, and your waiting for God to give you peace? As you see world events unfold, are you waiting for some security?

We all have something we are waiting on in life. We all have needs and wants, which we need help with. The question we need to think about is not so much what are you waiting on, but who are we waiting on? Most would say we are waiting on God, but are we truly doing so? Or are we looking for our own plan and are own desires to be fulfilled in our way and in our time?

I think most Christians today don’t understand what it means to wait on God. The word wait is a dirty four letter word in the church today. I was looking for a quote on waiting in a book called “Christian Quotations.” This exercise opened my eyes to how we don’t understand the idea of waiting. This book is 1140 pages thick, quotations on everything one would think of, so I looked up waiting, to my surprise there was only one quote on the subject, so I turned to the word worry, another surprise hit me, there were 54 quotes on this subject.

I think that is the issue with us today, we don’t know how to wait on God but we sure do know how to worry.