Hope for the Waiting Room
Waiting is hard. It’s comfortable, uncontrollable. Being in a waiting room confines you to living in the unknown. Knowing you can’t quite go back but you can’t move forward.
But if the waiting room is where we are at, what we wait on makes all the difference.
Are you waiting on someone or something?
As I write this, we are waiting on a diagnosis for my sister. Waiting on tests and doctors. Waiting on explanations and results. Waiting on a diagnosis and now we wait on a prognosis. And then of course we wait on what treatment looks like?
We wait on answers.
Waiting is hard. It’s comfortable, uncontrollable. Being in a waiting room confines you to living in the unknown. Knowing you can’t quite go back but you can’t move forward.
But if the waiting room is where we are at, what we wait on makes all the difference.
But if the waiting room is where we are at, what we wait on makes all the difference.
If we wait on the results or the decision. The proposal or the positive test. Waiting will weigh our hearts down. Exhaust our emotions. Leaving us disconnected and drained.
But David in the psalms points us in the right direction. “I wait quietly before God, for my victory comes from him” (Psalm 62:1).
When we wait on God and acknowledge our answers come from him, hope has a chance to enter the room. And when hope enters, trust is deposited in our souls.
And when hope enters, trust is deposited in our souls.
Trust in the God who made us and is for us. Who fights on our behalf. And those who “trust in the Lord will renew their strength” (Isaiah 40:31).
So when you are run down, ready to give in or give up. Remember you wait on the Lord and let his hope renew your strength.
He is waiting too. “So the Lord must wait for you to come to him so he can show you his love and compassion” (Isaiah 30:18).
Waiting to show you his love and compassion right now.
So let us come. Come to our healer. Come to our Hope. Come to the Lover of our souls.
He’s waiting.
“But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary they will walk and not be faint.” Isaiah 40:31
P.S. If you were encouraged today, would you please take a moment and pray for my sister Kiersten. She will fight the good fight with God but is navigating the long road to healing from Ovarian Cancer.