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The Weight of the Wait

What are you waiting on God for and what is the weight of your wait?

Waiting can be such a burden that the wait often presents a weight that tests the strength of one's patience. It’s a weight, because most times the wait wears you down. We just don’t like waiting, having to queue for things.  The world has proffered a solution in creating instantaneous technological innovation and advantages to combat, reduce and in some cases, eliminate the wait. But God works in a different way, beyond our human reasoning.

Here's a truth for today's Meditation Moment:  God is never early. He is never delayed or caught up in traffic so He isn't late. No matter what you think, or how heavy the weight of the burden may seem, God is always right on time. As an added bonus He is making all things beautiful in His time.

So why do we wait?

God doesn't make us wait because He is mean or because He is a sadist and it excites Him. Often He makes us wait so that the ‘weight of the wait’ may strengthen and mould us into the person He has called us to be - even while we are waiting. 

When you take on the ‘weight of the wait’ delightfully and righteously, you build inner-core agility and spiritual strength pumped with faithfulness, patience, self-control, and other attributes of the fruit of the Spirit of God, which should be formed and developed in every believer. Your spiritual nature is ‘transforming’ (progressive) such that, when you get through each ‘wait’ season because of the 'weight', you are better for it. 

So, while you are in your wait period, do what you can to grow your faith and develop the fruit of the Spirit of God within you.  You’ll find it makes the ‘weight of the wait’ more bearable, and in the long-run, more profitable. 

Action:

.1. In what areas are you 'waiting' on God? Take some time to think on this and write them down.

2. Identify the spiritual muscle (fruit of the Spirit) that you can use during your waiting period to strengthen, build and develop.

3. Remember that God is always on time, and makes all things beautiful in His time. Thank God for your wait season and the strength that He is developing in You.