“Hurry up and wait”

GCD Newsletter 17th October 2022

“Hurry up and wait”

It’s a common expression where I live. It’s a humorous, somewhat sarcastic attempt to explain a reality that is often part of life. Sometimes I find the expression humorous, and sometimes I hate it.

Waiting is a relinquishing of control to something or someone else. None of us like that. Even in writing, one is often told the subject of each sentence should be active…doing the action rather than passively receiving the action. Yet, in real life, I simply do not have that much control.

In Scripture, we read: “Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength.” This wonderful promise in Isaiah turns out to be harder than it appears to receive. To wait on God sounds easy enough, but when you’ve been waiting, praying, and begging God to work for years with seemingly little results, one sees how difficult waiting truly is.

But, the Lord’s timing is not our timing and his ways are always higher. One thing I’ve learned in my walk with the Lord is that he can’t be controlled, and he doesn’t change based on our perceived urgency. No, he is God Almighty, and he patiently works out what is good for his children even when they can’t see it.

Last week’s articles remind us that God works on his own timeline and he cannot be tamed…and that is good news.

Last Week at GCDiscipleship.com

Christ Changed Me…Slowly
by Aanna Greer

“Our culture is over-impressed by fast-acting results that require little effort. Too often, Christians can get swept away in this same thinking and feel discouraged when we don’t see more rapid change in our lives. But what is more miraculous, a lame man walking or a seed growing into a tree?”

Stop Domesticating God
by Brianna Lambert

“How often do we rush through times of waiting on the Lord just to get to the doing? How often do we act as though our safety, our joy, and our security is bound up in what we do and not in what our Lord has done?”

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In Christ,

James Williams