Wait, What? Learning to Be Still, While You’re Waiting on God to MoveSample

How the heck do we wait – when we’re in pain?

When we’re just barely holding on; when we want to just rebel and say screw it, when we want to be angry with God – how do we sit still?

It’s a heart posture toward God that is going to keep us waiting well. And waiting well doesn’t mean you’re not allowing yourself to feel or process, it’s feeling and processing while still being obedient, releasing control, through faith. Waiting well means that we still acknowledge the trials, we acknowledge the attacks, but we respond through the Holy Spirit, instead of reacting in our flesh.

Satan used multiple tactics to attack and attempt to destroy Job. Within a matter of moments, Job’s whole world fell apart. He lost a source of income in his crops, his team, his animals, and his children. He pitted Job’s wife against him.

And his first response was to fall to the ground and worship.

What if, instead of looking for blame in the trial, we worshipped? What if, instead of lashing out, we worshipped? What if, before we sinned in our anger, we worshipped? What if we first, shut our mouths, and lifted our hands instead? Not because we are trying to avoid the pain but during our pain, we still acknowledged that God was in it with us and that we trust him with the outcome.

Because sometimes when we think that things couldn’t get any worse, they get worse. Our trials are periods of waiting – and how we respond determines the direction of our faith.

When we experience deep loss and we are waiting on God to move with healing or restoration and we are faced with pressure from those around us, we must believe that God can heal us and restore us, to wait well.

What if, in the midst of our trials and waiting, our “how” becomes WORSHIP? And that “how” is LESS focused on us and MORE focused on GOD. 

Because when our response in the trial is WORSHIP and declaration of WHO GOD IS, then that builds our trust of WHAT GOD WILL DO when we wait.