Waiting On God

Today was the first time I have seen the pastor actually preach from the pulpit. Because of his leg injury, he had been sitting in a chair in front of the first pews. He does still have his crutches, but says he is making good progress. His message today was about waiting. Waiting on God. I definitely know myself, I do not enjoy waiting. I suspect most people don't. I suspect we all feel or have felt the same way. We don't want to wait for things to get better. To have more money. To have a new house. To get a different job. To get a job at all. To have children. Waiting is not fun. This world has loads of information in it, and so much of it is right at our fingertips. But the questions we need and want answered the most; we're not going to find the answers out there. Where do I go? What do I do? What path should I take? We want answers now. We want to figure out things now. So we try to figure it out ourselves. We try to do it on our own. Find our own answers. And we don't. We can't do it alone. God has got to be with you. We need to renew ourselves in God every day. We need to keep our faith as strong as we can every day. That is why it's so important to read the bible, to share your faith with those around you, to have friends and family that believe as you do, to go to church, to do all those things that worship Him. Believe you me, I'm not trying to imply I am good at doing these things. But I am starting to realize why it is so vital for all Christians. You can be a good person all day long, every day of the year, without keeping those things in your life, but I guarantee your faith won't keep as strong and steady without them. "Seven days without prayer makes one weak." And sometimes, maybe a lot of the time, you are going to need to wait. You're going to have to spend that period of time not knowing what is next, what you are going to do, where you are going to go, and when things will start to happen. You're going to have to wait on God, cause you can't do it without Him. Your plans may not look anything near God's plans, but I bet God's plans are definitely worth waiting for. And as I know I've mentioned before, there is our time and there is God's time. Waiting is not something I want to do. But I've got to, because I can't do anything without God.

-ladyworpledinker