Category: Isaiah

  • Waiting on God: Finding Faith in God’s Waiting Room

    sitting on a bemch waiting on God

    Waiting. How much time does the average person spend doing it? It’s impossible to nail down, because it depends on how you define it. I did some quick searching and here are some sample results.

    The average person spends five years of their lifetime waiting in lines and queues

    The average American spends 37 hours waiting in line each year, 13 hours on hold, and 38 hours stuck in traffic. 

    A Duolingo/OnePoll survey found the average person loses about 26 days per year to wasted time, roughly 12 hours a week. 

    Americans wait an average of 20 minutes a day for public transit, 32 minutes at the doctor, and 28 minutes in airport security lines. 

    Whatever the real number is, I think we can agree that we all spend a lot of time waiting. Much of what feels like waiting time is waiting on God. Answers to prayer seem slow in coming. Our circumstances don’t change. Things don’t get easier. Our healing isn’t coming.

    These waiting times have often been called “God’s waiting room.” That might some a little cliché, but there is truth in it.

    God doesn’t operate on our timing. Much of what we think is wasted time is being used by God to strengthen our faith and grow us.

    The Bible repeatedly reminds us of that truth.

    Hope in Yahweh; be strong, and let your heart take courage; hope in Yahweh. Psalm 27:14

    Yet those who hope in Yahweh Will gain new power; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not get tired; they will walk and not become weary. Isaiah 40:31

    Hold fast in the waiting time. God is still God when we don’t see His hand. He remains God when we have unanswered questions. He will never leave us or forsake us.

    He knows what we need and is best at providing in it. Walk in faith. The LORD has you in His hands.

    Praise His name.

    Be blessed 

    Kevin 

    SUMMARY

    Waiting is an unavoidable part of life — and much of it feels like waiting on God. But Scripture reminds us that time spent waiting is never wasted when God is using it to strengthen faith and shape character.

    KEY POINTS:

    We spend enormous amounts of time waiting, and much of our spiritual life involves waiting on God — for answered prayer, changed circumstances, and healing.

    God doesn’t operate on our timetable; what feels like delay is often His purposeful work of growing and strengthening us.

    Scripture calls us to hope in Yahweh, take courage, and walk in faith — trusting that He holds us, knows our needs, and will never leave or forsake us.

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  • Dancing with Joy

    Two trees dancing with joy

    Yesterday we went to a friend’s home for our weekly community group meeting. The first thing I saw when I exited the car was these two trees dancing with joy.

    Technically, I was experiencing Visual pareidolia. It’s a psychological phenomenon where your brain recognizes familiar patterns—especially faces—in random or vague stimuli. Humans are particularly wired to spot faces, so we tend to “find” them in things like clouds, tree bark, rocks, or even shadows.

    It happens to me a lot. It’s just the way I am wired. Yet, you don’t need a lot of imagination to look at the picture and see two trees dancing with joy.

    That image got me thinking about the state of the created world, both now and in the future. Right now, it is suffering and groaning.

    For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.  Romans 8:22-23

    That will change. The Lord will set everything right.

    “For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall make a name for the Lord, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”

    Isaiah 55:12-13

    That day is coming, for the Lord has promised it. Christians are the only people who have a true reason for hope. We ought to be giving thanks, singing, dancing, and praising God more.

    He gives us fresh mercies every morning, and He will deliver on his promises.

    I long for the days when the mountains break forth, and the trees clap their hands and dance. How about you?

    In the interim, remember his blessing and promises and rejoice.

    Be blessed

    Kevin

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