In our waiting…

Do you have the No Wait app?

I love it. If you aren’t familiar with this app, it lets you put your name in the line at the restaurant straight from your phone. Once you’ve selected the restaurant and number of people in your party, it gives you your estimated wait time. Best part, you can spend that wait time in your commute, at home, or however you want! If you don’t have it yet, I’ll link it here.

Sometimes we feel like we’re in the waiting room of life. We’re waiting for our table to be ready, our name to be called, the thing to finally happen.

I want to encourage you, when you’re walking with God, your waiting is not in vain.

There are different seasons: the planting season, the growing season and the harvest season. It seems like it’s the verse of fall, however, the truth covers all seasons. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven,” Ecclesiates 3:1.

Waiting is very hard. It’s frustrating. It’s praying until you don’t have words left. It’s doubting. It’s difficult. And in the waiting, it’s as if every person around you is getting exactly what you’re waiting for…except you.

When the pain and the doubt take a piece of your heart, I want to remind you of this truth. “The Lord withholds no good thing from those who walk uprightly,” Psalm 84:11.

The other night, I was reading a devotion. It wasn’t the devotion for that day, but something pulled me to it. The topic: Hannah, a faithful woman whose journey covers a mere two chapters in 1 Samuel. That’s all. Two chapters isn’t a lot, however her story carries throughout the whole Bible.

She was a woman who tied a knot at the end of her “waiting” rope and was clinging to it. Her desire? To be a mom. She too had the slap in the face and the daily reminder that others were getting what she could not have. She remained faithful in God. She was burdened and her heart was broken with this longing, however she had hope.

God did hear her prayers and He did bless her with a child. In His time, he gave her a child. His timing is so key to her journey. Samuel would grow up to be the man who anointed David as king. David has his own story of waiting that I so love, but I’ll save that for another post. The timing of Samuel’s birth was imperative for the eventual birth of Jesus. God worked through Hannah. Her waiting was not in vain.

The same God that gave Hannah a baby, the same God that told Abraham that his descendants would be as many as the stars in the sky, the God that calms the ocean with His voice – that same God hears your prayers and those cries of your heart.

I promise you, God is preparing you for what he has for you, and God is preparing what’s meant for you, for you.

Franklin, TN. If you haven’t been, find a free weekend and go! About 30 minutes outside Nashville, Franklin is a small town with shops, restaurants, a movie theater and the cutest Anthropology. There’s a corner Starbucks across the street. It’s a whitewashed brick building with the signature Starbucks logo on the front. To cross the street, the crosswalk button responds to your press with a pleasant voice, “wait.”

It’s a steady but firm reminder to not go. I think that’s kind of how life works. We’re ready to cross the street. We’re at the intersection. We’ve pushed the button. We’ve prayed. We’ve done everything we know to do, and the light is still red.

But just like that light will turn green, God will move in your life in His time.

The weight of those three words: in His time.

God knows your life story and has since before you were born.

We may not understand why life is going the way it is, but God does! “When we are faithless, He remains faithful,” 2 Timothy 2:13.

He is faithful to love us. Faithful to provide every need for us. Faithful through the ages.

Oh sweet friend, I may not know what the wait is for you, but I know that God is good and He is good to us.

So even though you may be in a season of waiting, when you’re walking with God, just like the No Wait app, your wait is not in vain. God has you exactly where He wants you to be and if you’ll let Him, He’ll work through you and in you.

I want you to know, I’m praying that God would give you courage and hope, like Hannah, in the waiting. Dear friend, please always remember, He is faithful through the ages.