Waiting may be the hardest kind of faith. Waiting for an answer. For healing. For a marriage, a baby, a prodigal to come home, a door to finally open. At first you wait with hope. But when the waiting stretches on, hope can quietly curdle into discouragement — and you start to wonder if God has forgotten.
He has not. And the Bible does not treat waiting as wasted time. It treats it as a place where God is at work in you, even when nothing seems to be moving.
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
(Lamentations 3:25)
Good to them that wait. The waiting is not a sign of His absence; it is a season with His goodness in it. And He does something in the waiting that a quick answer never could — He renews your strength:
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
(Isaiah 40:31)
So how do you wait without losing heart? You keep your eyes on who God is, rather than on how long it is taking. You let the waiting turn into worship.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
(Psalm 27:14)
He says it twice — wait, I say, on the LORD — as if He knows we need to hear it more than once.
A gentle practice for today: write down what you are waiting for, and then, beside it, one true thing about God’s character that does not depend on the timing — He is good, He is faithful, He is never late. Turning the waiting into worship is how the in-between becomes holy ground instead of empty time.
Turning waiting into hope, with your eyes on God’s character while you wait, is what the guided Hope in the Waiting journal was written to do.
May your thoughts be bright and your life beautiful.
