Waiting On The Lord

"Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."

-1 John 4:8

Waiting on the Lord. What is waiting on the Lord? Pause your thoughts; let me put this in simpler form. How much of your future do you know? Your only know one thing for sure right? Some day you will meet God. This is also known as Judgment day. We certainly know our past, but everyday until meeting God, and everyday after that remains in the unknown for us. So what must we do until then? We must wait, wait, and wait. We fall victim of patience, or rather the lack there of… called impatience.

 

Unfortunately we often suffer from the illness of impatience. Few of us have that age-old virtue. Patience isn’t the thing we have lost however; the thing we have lost is the drive to obtain patience. We do not desire patience anymore, because everything has become instant, instant Internet, instant food, and instant gratification. We see no need for patience anymore.

 

James 5:7 says,

“Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.”

Just as farmers wait for the rain, we are called to wait on the Lord. Why do we wait? We wait because we love.

-1 Corinthians 13:13

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

 -1 Corinthians 13:4 

“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant.”

So, what does the bible say love is? It says love is patient. Though we may not have much desire for it in our culture, you cannot deny we do desire love, and therefore need patience as well. If we love each other, we are patient with each other. If we love the Lord, we wait on the Lord.   

We may have our whole life planned and ready, but unless God has approved it, it’s not going to happen. And what do we do when things don’t happen the way we thought they would, we get upset and angry and the situation that we are in. We mess things up and God sends us a fix. His fix is to rely and trust in what He has planned.

But, we can’t do that now can we, because that requires patience and waiting, and we don’t like that. We like to have things our own way. If we give things to God then we are trusting in an unknown future.

Trusting is waiting on what He has planned. We fear that after all that waiting we will be disappointed in what finally happens.

Corrie Ten Boom puts it best. “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

I promise you, you won’t be disappointed.  What is holding you back, is it the fear of taking a risk in the future God has for you. That is no risk. The true risk is not in the Lord’s future, it in the patience to wait on the Lord. Having patience is the biggest risk, but it’s a risk worth taking. Take a God risk. The Lord loves you, and His love is patient.

As we go through out our lives remember what God says in Ephesians 5:1-2.

“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us…a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”

One thing people miss understand is just because you are waiting and sitting still, does not mean God is waiting and sitting still. As we wait, God is building. He is building you a future. His design has been specifically drawn for you and your life.

Waiting on the Lord however is so much more then waiting for Him to reveal His plans for tomorrow. It is a patient action to be taken now, an action to love others. Love is an action that can be taken while waiting.

So when your parents, siblings, or children start pushing every buttons possible, choose to love. And remember that love is patent. Choose to be like God, for God is love. Wait on the Lord and His timing for the future He has planned, but remember to always love.