The Hardest LessonWait and you shall realize the Joy of the one who can be calm and wait, knowing that all is well. The last, and hardest lesson, is that of waiting. So wait.
There is so much you have had to be taught -- to avoid future disaster.
Use this waiting time to cement the Friendship with Me, and to increase your Knowledge of Me.
Waiting on God was one of David's secrets of being a man after God's own heart.
Nothing tries our faith like waiting on God for answers to prayer. Waiting tests our submission to Him as our trustworthy Authority. Waiting is not necessarily stopping all activity; it is submission to God's better idea. Waiting on God means that all of our life is brought under God's umbrella of authority and direction. If we run ahead of God, we will be painfully chastened by turmoil, exhaustion, and failure. Taking matters in our own hands has ample instructive precedent in God's Word. Think of Abraham with Ishmael, Saul's usurping the role of a priest, Israel looking to Egypt for help (Isa. 30:1-3), or walking in the light of our own fire (Isa. 50:11.)What do we learn while we are waiting?
We learn God himself.
I want to remember this time forever. The dependency and trust that waiting on God has brought to our life is indescribable. I never want to go back to what life was like when things were going smooth, right, easy, or maybe the word is "my way." Submitting it all to Him and His plans takes such a burden off our shoulders, the burden of "human success," and puts a desire in our hearts to see "God's success". The latter is such Joy.
