have you ever been waiting for something and you thought man I wish God would just speak to me wish you would just tell me what's going on I wish you pull the curtain back and go let me just tell you how everything's unfolding I mean we live in a time that makes it so hard to wait don't we I mean we live in an instant culture but that instant culture makes it so hard for us to wait it really does we just kind of we don't wait well but the fact of the matter is every
single person you and I all of us are waiting on something aren't you what if waiting wasn't something that we kind of grinded our way through but it really was a gift of God what if in the waiting God was going to tell us something about faith a a god that is an instant God does not require any faith what if in the waiting God wanted to reveal something about our heart and our life and our character and our nature that we otherwise wouldn't see or know what what if waiting wasn't something to be ignored
or to be pushed back what if it was something to be invited in and be embraced the waiting is not wasted if you invite Jesus into the middle of it God is at work in your life maybe even especially in the moments you don't see him the the moments he's not answering the prayer the way that you prayed the prayer and is it possible that he's actually working all around me but my eyes aren't seeing it is it possible that one of the reasons we miss God plan is because he's not doing ours you need
to know that it's absolutely normal for God to be doing great things when it looks like he's doing nothing let me say this again it's a big deal it is absolutely normal for God to be doing unbelievably amazing things in moments that look to us like he's doing nothing here's why if you haven't noticed yet God doesn't usually typically tell us his plans and and and I don't know why I don't know if that's because if you and I heard what he was going to do we would like veto it or if he told us
what we were going to do we would be terrified or we just go hey God you know what I like your plan pretty well but could we tweak it a little and instead here's what God does God works in our life and says okay I'm going to do this and sometimes it looks good and sometimes looks bad but I'm I'm going to do that you're not going to know where this is going to go I'm just going to ask you to live the next moment that I gave you the right way and when you live
that moment well I'll give you a next and then I'll give you a next but you're not going to know where this is going to end up which means there's moments when I'm living in a moment that I'm going God this is unfair and it's wrong and I don't I don't see you working and just because God hasn't told you the plan doesn't mean he's not working the plan most of us here would say I I trust God most of us here would say I I trust his plan I believe that he has my best
interest in mind the hard part is can we trust his timing patience and the ability to wait on God suggests that we trust his timing that's why waiting on God is hard but you know what's worse than waiting on God wishing that you waited on God that whatever however long you have to wait it will be worth it because God's timing is perfect see we understand timing when it comes to other things in this life you put cookies in the oven and they're supposed to take 20 minutes and you take them out after 5 they're
not ready yet but when we can't see God working we grow impatient we take matters into our own hands and we make a mess because we can't see what he's doing he's up to something we just can't see it so why while we wait we can either make things worse by taking matters into our own hands or we can allow the weight to build our character we can allow the weight to grow fruit we can allow the weight to remind us that he's good and not only is he good but that he's trustworthy and that
his timing is best so there is a power in waiting and I want you to understand very clearly waiting is it's it's a time to do a few things waiting is a time to become waiting is a time to evolve waiting is a time to develop waiting is a time to learn waiting is a time to grow so you're not just doing nothing while you're waiting you are becoming you're evolving you're developing you're learning you're growing you're healing you're maturing you're gaining perspective you're growing in wisdom you're being educated your discernment is being sharpened there
are so many different things that start happen happening while you're waiting that's why you can't rush that process you can't rush maturity anybody who's great never became great overnight that's why slow success builds your character quick success builds your ego God knows exactly what he's doing and he is pacing you to be able to safely handle the blessing that he's about to bring you into but in life it's not that the events get easier as you get older is that you get wiser and you get stronger is I mean when you work out in the
gym if you've been lifting a certain weight it'll feel like it's the weight has gotten easier now the weight has not gotten easy it's the same you've gotten stronger you see God's Building strength in us so if you go in and do the same thing every day you don't even realize that strength is happening until one day you go in and what you started off struggling shaking to lift now you can pump it I mean you just you start with that you start with that it's not that the weight got lighter you got stronger and
so that's what God does over time he's strengthening us now that there's a man by the name of of Ronald uh Ronald Wayne some people don't know him and there's a reason that they don't know him but he was one of the co-founders of Apple along with Steve Jobs and Steve wnc well um let me tell you what happened Ronald Wayne got impatient and so back in the 1970s late 1970s he said man you know what I mean I I know uh I'm one of the co- co-founders of Apple here but man I need my
money he sold his 10% stake in apple back in the late 1970s guess how much $800 you know $800 for 10% of Apple today that stock would have been worth $200 billion are you understanding the power of waiting now but you got to be able to have the the big picture The Long View in mind or else you'll Ser sell your Birthright for a bowl of beans you got to be able to see the big picture you've got to be able to see the big picture maybe it's possible that God is delaying whatever it is
in your life simply because he has something bigger he wants to do I don't always know why God isn't on time I don't know why sometimes he doesn't show up when we want him to but I can tell you this I know that he loves you I know that you can trust him and you can continue to believe him in the meantime
