- "Waiting is the hardest work of hope." - Lewis Smedes
- For good reasons, God does not always move at our frantic pace. We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
- What God does in us while we wait is as important as what it is we are waiting for.
- "Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live." - M. Scott Peck
- Paul says that while we are waiting for God to set everything right, we suffer. But suffering produces endurance; endurance, character; and character, hope.
- Waiting is not just something we have to do while we get what we want. It is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
- Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, and sometimes painful clinging to God.
- Waiting on the Lord is the continual, daily decision to say, "I will trust You, and I will obey You. Even though the circumstances of my life are not turning out the way I want them to, and may never turn out the way I would choose, I am betting everything on You. I have no plan B."
- Waiting means that we give God the benefit of the doubt that He knows what He is doing.
- Waiting is a good thing for people like me. It reminds me that I am not in charge... Waiting humbles me in ways I need to be humbled.
- Because waiting reminds us that we are waiting for Someone, the single most important activity in waiting is prayer. Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
- God's voice if never frantic. When you hear desperate thoughts, you can know it is not God speaking.
- Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted; but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
- We must live these words--sparing, running, and walking--"one line at a time." - David Hubbard
- Sometimes, walking is all we can do. But in those times, walking is enough.
- Every time you engage in the battle, every time you resist sin, every time you proclaim the gospel, every time you give a portion of your resources for the spread of the kingdom, every time you offer a cup of cold water in Jesus' name, every time you "wait on the Lord"--every time, the darkness gets pushed back a little more and the light gets a little stronger.
- So you keep walking, because what we wait for is not more important than what happens to us while we are waiting.
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