…waiting…

I received some great encouragement in my email inbox this morning. Not a personal note, or a forwarded message, but one of those ‘daily devotional’-type messages. I subscribe to a few, but this particular one came courtesy of Ravi Zecharias Ministries.

You can read the whole email here – but here’s a ‘teaser’…

…I was astounded at the number of passages that talk about waiting on God. It is not just one biblical writer who speaks of waiting on God in positive terms; the blessings of waiting are extolled throughout the entire canon of Scripture… Lately I have been wondering why God so often sends us into the school of waiting. Does He send us there so that we will learn our lesson and never have to wait again? Or does He send us there to learn to savor times of waiting (times that will inevitably come again and again), to learn to look at them as opportunities to draw close to the heart of God?

Well worth a read if you sometimes feel as though you’re stuck in limbo. Be encouraged!

Since ancient times no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
- Isaiah 64:4 (NIV)