While I’m Waiting

I have been waiting on something to happen for quite a while now. And it seems like I have done everything right and just still nothing happens. We get close to being able to move on, but something happens and we start over again.

In times like these it would be real easy to give in and say it is over, enough is enough. Find another way and move on. Cut your losses and be done with it.

But is that what has to happen? The answer to that question is no! That is the easy ways out and that is what the world would want us to do. The powers of evil alive in this world work to get us to think only about our selves and how we need to make it.

Now don’t get me wrong. I wonder if I have let my family down. I wonder what I have gotten them into. They are looking up to me as a provider and supporter of them, and I am not providing. I’m watching my wife go work, and make money so we can survive as we burn through savings. It is hard. I want to be the hero for my children and I wonder if I am letting them down. I wonder what they will remember about the past 8 months while daddy looked for a job.

And it would be real easy to just curl up in a fetal position and cry and say whoa is me…

But hat is not who I am. That is not who God created me to be. I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that God has a place for us. We just have to wait on His timing. Philippians 4:11-13 says:

Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

No Matter where we find ourselves, God will give us the strength through Jesus Christ to make it through. I can do ALL things. I can praise Him, I can serve Him and I can wait for Him even when it feels like the mountains around me are closing in on me and the valley is getting deeper and darker, I do not have to fear, because He is with me and will be my strength through the storm.

Just as Jeremiah 29:11 says:  For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. We all have been given a hope…

I thought of this song today, While I’m Waiting by John Waller. It is a wonderful song from the movie Fireproof. I find comfort in the words, and I pray that it will brighten your day. And always remember there is strength through God in Jesus Christ for us to do all things. So look to the Lord and He will be your help and your shade, and He will protect you!