What Are You Waiting For?

What are you waiting for?  We’re all waiting for something. Maybe it’s for life to go back to what it was before COVID-19. Maybe it’s for the vaccine. Or a job. Or someone new to love and love you in return. When we feel stuck in our circumstances, our waiting can become desperate. Or we don’t wait at all. We jump the gun. Make the move. Pull the trigger. Let’s be honest, carried out in off-timing, our knee-jerk reactions can produce disastrous results.   

Let’s stop waiting for false saviors to magically rescue us and get back to waiting on God alone.

In Psalm 62:1, David says, “For God alone my soul waits in silence, from him comes my salvation.” He only. He alone. My rock and my salvation.

 What did David need? He needed to remind himself that there was nothing outside of God that he was trusting. He wasn’t looking for something else to give him a quick fix to temporary happiness. He knew God had what he needed, when he needed it. And that was all the why he needed to wait on God –– actively, and for as long as it took until he got his breakthrough.

I will not be greatly shaken when I reorient the who, what, when, and why of my waiting. It becomes God and God alone. His will, always worth waiting for.