Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. – Psalm 27:14
We live in a world that hates to wait. We have fast food, same-day delivery, and instant downloads. If something isn’t available right now, we find a way to get it faster. Patience feels like such an outdated virtue!
But God doesn’t work on our rushed schedules. His timing is perfect, and His plans unfold exactly how and when they should. That’s why Psalm 27:14 reminds us, “Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.”
Waiting on God doesn’t mean sitting around, doing nothing, and hoping for the best. It means actively trusting Him, knowing He is working behind the scenes. It’s holding on to faith when answers don’t come quickly or we don’t yet see the bigger picture. It’s praying, preparing, and positioning ourselves for what He is going to do.
A farmer can teach us a lot about waiting. After planting the seeds, he doesn’t dig them up every day, demanding they produce an immediate crop. He waters, he weeds, he protects the soil. He trusts that, in time, the harvest will come. That’s what waiting on the Lord looks like – faith in action.
If you’re in a season of waiting, don’t waste it! Use this time to grow your faith, to prepare for what God has in store for you, and to trust that His timing is always better than yours.
“All the exercises of the spiritual life, our reading and praying, our willing and doing, have their very great value. But they can go no farther than this, that they point the way and prepare us in humility to look to and to depend alone upon God Himself, and in patience to await His good time and mercy. The waiting is to teach us our absolute dependence upon God’s might working, and to make us in perfect patience place ourselves at His disposal.”
― Andrew Murray, “Waiting on God”
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