Journey into Lightl

“I am outraged! I am broken-hearted! Not again?” I said to God a few days ago.

I was at a Christian Writers Conference and God had just said to revise my book again. “I am sick and tired of rewriting this book! This must be the hundredth time you have led me to rewrite it.

“You know that “hope deferred makes the heart sick” (Proverbs 13:12), so either tell me “Go” or change my hope so I can wait in peace.”

You would think that four years was long enough to write a book, but God’s direction was a clear “Wait!”

As I reflected on this unwanted guidance, I recalled how waiting on God for a wife really paid off for me. I believe I got a much better wife than I would have if I had not waited on God’s “Go.”

So, with much sadness and grief, mixed with his peace, I approach rewriting the book again.

Waiting on God means to lose control. We recognize we need God’s guidance and help. We are not the Master of our Destiny and the Captain of our Soul. He is.

Waiting on God means an interactive, intimate relationship in which we let him into our daily lives. We wait because he knows best.

We wait on God by not “jumping the gun.” It feels good when we can make things happen. But are the things that we make happen God’s good works or are they our futile attempts in serve God in our own strength (1 Corinthians 3:10-15)?

We wait even though it hurts, anticipating a better result than charging ahead. That could mean waiting for a spouse, a better job, or publishing a book.

We learn to wait in peace as we rely on the truth that obedience and trust in God is what life is about. And he likes to do this a step at a time. “Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear Me, and keep all My commandments always, that it may be well with them” (Deuteronomy 5:29).

Let us wait on God until we hear his “Go.” May we be like David who waited patiently for God to fulfill his promise to make him king. May we wait until He brings us “up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and He sets [our] feet upon a rock making [our] footsteps firm” (Psalm 40:2-3, brackets added).