Wait

Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted;
but those who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength . . .(Isaiah 40:29-30a, NRS)a

I receive lists of prayer requests that involve important life matters. The outcome of the prayer will be crucial to how the rest of life will proceed. Most of these prayer requests require waiting.

Waiting is difficult. The process of waiting either produces anxiety or trust. In the end we must measure what matters in the process of life.

Does waiting matter?

The right answer would be that the process of waiting does matter when we use the time to trust God. Even so, most of us would prefer not to wait when it comes to the true matters of life. Seriously, wouldn't you rather immediately trust and skip the waiting?

When you get down to it . . . there is a component of trust that requires waiting. It occurs when we have done all that we can do and the only thing left to do is trust that God is working on our behalf with perfect timing.

Isaiah allows us to see waiting from an inside-out position: Those who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength.

Wait.
Wait and refuse to be anxious.
Wait and trust God.
Wait and believe God is working.
Wait and be strengthened.

Learning with you to wait,
Shalom,
Kerrie
(All devotions written by Kerrie Palmer ©2008 All Rights Reserved)