Last night I was reading through my journal and came across some notes that I took during a sermon on waiting sometime last year. These are things that I need to be reminded of on a regular basis. Here are some highlights.
Waiting on the Lord is an act of obedience.
Suffering can be a reminder that there is something better coming worth waiting (suffering) for.
God has a plan. He’s doing something even when it seems like he’s not.
God is producing something while we wait.
God waited until Jesus was 30 years old to begin his ministry.
Waiting on the Lord requires a trusting heart.
We want God’s resources. But we don’t want his time table.
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. - 2 Peter 3: 9
A few pages later in my journal was a quote that my former associate pastor, James Cole, used in a sermon and I think it ties into waiting on God to form something glorious. It was a statement that someone made the first time they saw the Grand Canyon:
My God, something happened here.
The World Can Wait by Over the Rhine
if this should end tomorrow
all our best laid plans
and all our typical fears
am i running out of lifetimes
this is not the first time
something ends in just tears
but tomorrow i can't imagine
how am i supposed to know
what's yet to go down
is there only one religion
the kind that whispers
when nobody comes around
the world can wait
the world can wait
i want to drink the water from your well
i want to tell you things i'll never tell
the world can wait
the world can wait
i'm wide awake
and the world can wait
i want to feel and then some
i have five senses
i need thousands more at least
every day a page of paper
every night a photograph
a moveable feast
so fade to black and white now
roll the movie of my life
inside of my head
'cause like all true believers
i am truly skeptical
of all that i have said
the world can wait
the world can wait
i want to drink the water from your well
i want to tell you things i'll never tell
the world can wait
the world can wait
i'm wide awake
and the world can wait
haven't i said enough
haven't i said far too much
haven't i done enough
haven't i done far too much
far too much
the world can wait
3 comments:
i was reading "Searching for God Knows What this Week" (donald miller) and he said that adam waited 100 years after he was created before God gave him companionship in eve. i have never heard this before . . . but if it is true, it is an interesting thing to know that gives a glimpse into god's ways.
sorry, long long day. brain is mushy.
that would be . . .
"Searching for God Knows What", this week . . .
Thanks, I kind of needed to hear something in this vein...
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