{"id":91,"date":"2012-10-09T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T02:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/?p=91"},"modified":"2012-09-27T20:01:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T20:01:29","slug":"how-goes-the-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/2012\/10\/09\/how-goes-the-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"How Goes the Waiting?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post was submitted by Reverend Karen Hinz<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Psalm 40:1 says \u201cI waited patiently for the Lord.\u201d Six simple words, but how hard to do! Especially when we desire great changes to take place in our personal lives or in the world.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know anyone who likes to wait, but it seems that nearly everyone is waiting for something. And when we are forced to wait, we often do so impatiently, tapping our fingers and sighing. What would it take for you to \u201cwait patiently\u201d?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s common to say, \u201cI don\u2019t have the gift of patience,\u201d even though patience is never defined in the Bible as a spiritual gift. Over and over again, the Bible uses command language to call us ALL to wait patiently. But the last three words of Psalm 40:1 are the most important: \u201cI waited patiently for the Lord.\u201d Often, when we finally decide to try to wait patiently for something, we are still waiting to get our own way, instead of waiting \u201cfor the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n

I spent three years waiting for a ministry job, and God used that time to do some Potter\u2019s molding in my life. I resisted waiting, feeling that I was already \u201cbehind\u201d my seminary peers because I had spent years doing ministry part time while raising small children. But God was not anxious. God the Potter was removing the impurity of comparing myself to others.<\/p>\n

In my waiting, I was very impatient at times, and yet through it all, God the Potter was smoothing and calming my spirit. I was waiting for my own dreams to be fulfilled, and yet God the Potter was teaching me to envision his own dreams for my future. I cannot say yet that I love to wait. But God worked on my willingness to wait, on my patience in waiting, and on my focus of waiting \u2013 to be on the Lord.<\/p>\n

What are you waiting for? And what has waiting taught you?<\/p>\n

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