Waiting well...

Coming from Zimbabwe, queues where always the order of the day. Queue for money to buy food, queue for fuel to go to the grocery store. Queue for an item i.e. bread at the grocery store then ultimately queue at the cash till to pay for these groceries so our lives were filled with waiting. But thinking about it what did I do with those precious hours in which my life was filled with waiting and I come up with one word, NOTHING.

Isn't this the same with our walk with God, were sometimes we are in a season filled with queues and all we do is complain. Comparing God to a bank teller or fuel attendant whose sole purpose is to serve us. Personally I've been in a waiting period for a couple of months and just going in my brain, 'Anytime today would be good God'. But to my dismay am still in that queue and nothing seems to be happening. Speaking to my mum today made the situation even more real and it was so easy for me to start thinking of a backup plan, just incase God doesn't pull through. But even as the thought entered my mind the absurdity of such a phrase hit me. And it hit me in the form  of two verses Numbers 23:19 - 'God is not man who lies or son of man who changes his mind, does He speak and not act or promise and not fulfill?'(HSCB) and Hebrews 6:18 - ' So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us' (NLT). 


Its so easy not to trust God when things don't happen in our alloted time, when God seems to be just taking a chill pill in our situation for kicks, but I think the thing we need to learn is to wait well. As Sibs (Elder at Godfirst church) once put it, do we sometimes consider that God is more interested in working in our hearts than in our situation. That He is more worried about building Christ-likeness in us..... Not saying God doesn't care about our problems or the situations we are in, but lets not let our lives boil down to the whether God has done His 'genie' work. Terry Virgo(leader of New Frontiers family of churches) put it excellently when he said, "Salvation begins when we surrender to Christ's lordship".


Maybe you have an unmet need in your life right now, maybe like me not knowing how you are going to come back to university the following year. Maybe your marriage has been on a knifes edge for months, or you are watching your only child's health slowly deteriorate. Whatever it is, big or small, I encourage you, while seeking God for an intervention wait well. Instead of complaining 3hours in the bank queue of your situation, see the inner work that God is doing. Because one thing is for sure, that its our faith in Jesus that gets us through the hard times. Because hard times will come and go, problems will arise and pass but God is still God. Just thought I would leave you with the words from a song by Kutless called I'm Still Yours

Even if you take it all away

You never let me go

Take it all away

I still know

That I'm yours

I'm still yours

love, peace and happiness

Tau