Wait?? What??

Most of us have been through or know of someone who is going through a trial in life that seems to others as unfathomable or outside of anything we should even be able to bear.  Our internal dialogue battles within the reality and difficulty of the balance between tears, depression, anxiety, and anger among other emotions.  On the other hand, it is the testing of faith which brings us to ask some tough questions. 

What do I really believe?

Does God really know how I'm suffering?

Do I believe what the Bible says?

Why doesn't God answer my prayers?

among others......

While I can't answer all of these questions for you, I can share with you what He has taught me within my trials and through His word during those times of uncertainty.  Please keep in mind that my trials are mine, and while some might look and feel similar, they remain mine as I completely believe what the book of James says about them.

Consider it great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.  But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.  James 1:2-4

A farmer doesn't just walk into a crop.  The soil must be prepared, weeds removed, seeds planted, water and sun are also needed, and then there is the measure of time required to grow and flourish until the proper time for harvest.  There are many pains, struggles, and processes to get a crop to develop correctly.  Nothing happens overnight.

A builder must clear his work area to establish a foundational workspace in which to create his masterpiece.  This might mean stripping away some of the items impeding foreseen progress.  Plans and visions that may be invisible to the passerby, lie invigorated in the mind of the creator.  The finished product being the driving force, motivating a project to fruition.  Time exists between beginning and end.

The Potter stands at the wheel adding just enough water to allow pliability to a lump of clay.  With precision and perfect pressure, He rounds off the edges and molds into the creative vision He has for each lump. During the molding process, a continuous measure of water is required lest the clay harden to the point it must be broken and the process restarted.  There must be a source of water for the clay to remain moldable for the Potter.  This molding and shaping continues until the clay becomes an image of perfection.  

Because we are confined to the dimension of time and are by nature impatient, the waiting can seem like forever. Our Creator, on the other hand, is not limited or constrained by the physical laws that govern our world.  Our inability to comprehend life outside of an eternal time continuum demands faith and trust in The One Who Is.

“I am the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”  Revelation 22:13

God simply IS…

Yet we waver in our faith of The Most Faithful One, based on our lack of understanding.

For many of us, our understanding of how a car works is limited to putting fuel in the tank to make it go.  However, there is much more to it.  The pistons, transmission, drive train, braking system, and air conditioning are used without our understanding.  We still believe in cars.  And in all of this…there is timing.

Medications are prescribed by doctors for certain ailments.  We take them all the time, yet we can’t see what they are doing within our bodies.  They are taken on faith in what is believed to be true, yet even the drug manufacturers don’t know for sure.  Even so, they all require an element of time as well.

Jesus teaches, in Luke 11, persistent prayer.  We shouldn’t see God as Santa, who gives us everything on our wish list at our beck and call.  Everything we want is certainly not good for us or even necessary for our comfort.  We must always remember that He is for us within His good and perfect will for our lives.  There is a much bigger picture we are unable to see, which is where we are called to trust.  The PUSH method of prayer is required.  Pray Until Something Happens.  This is persistence.

“So I say to you, keep asking and it will be given to you.  Keep searching, and you will find.  Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.  What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?  Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?  If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”  Luke 11:9-13

Please understand that He is in the waiting.  Teaching, training, molding, and preparing us for the more.

Are you waiting for something He has promised?  Have you stopped praying for these things?  He may just be waiting for the next one.

If you know someone who is waiting, hurting, longing for an answer, please share this with them.  If this has helped in any way, please let me know by commenting.  And you can always like, share, and follow.

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