Skip to main content

Blessing in the Waiting~Featuring Diana Dobbs




How much of our lives are spent waiting? We wait at red lights and stop signs, we wait in line at the grocery store, and if you work outside of your home, you know how much we wait for the weekend to get here!

All of the above things have a specific time we have to wait. Whether it be 3 seconds at a stop sign, 2 minutes at a red light, 5 minutes at the grocer or 5 days for the weekend. What else do we wait for? What about when we are waiting on God? The Word says "his thoughts are not out thoughts and his ways are higher than are ways". Where we say, "Lord, we need this now"....He says, "Not yet". So what do we do "in the waiting"?


Its easy to get discouraged "in the waiting". When we are waiting on God to show us the manifestation of a promise, when our bills are due, when our loved ones are running from God, the waiting seems endless.

But God is a good and merciful God and his timing is always perfect and ALWAYS on time! So again, what do we DO in the waiting? Do we fuss and gripe about and get angry and impatient? The Word says, "the trying or testing of our faith produces patience". Do we sulk and moan and cry? Do we DOUBT that our God will not come through for us, even though His record shows He always does? OR do we thank Him that he knows our every need, that he knows our heart's desires, he "knows our need BEFORE we have need of it"!

 Do we really cast all of our care on Him and leave it there?

Here is where the blessing is in the waiting. During the difficult times is when we are more open to listening. During our trying times is when we know that God HAS to do something or we sink. So we listen closely and wait. It is during these times that I find I completely give it to Him.. Whatever it is. I can, in the natural do nothing about the situation, but I know HE can. Its "in the waiting" that I have found He has molded me and shaped me.

That my trust in Him has grown tremendously, and where I use to have distress, I now have peace. Peace that in the natural would make no sense, not with everything going on around me, but the "Peace that surpasses all understanding", the Peace that "guards my heart and mind through Him and in Him".. It is a time that I completely trust in Him. I could not have done that 2 years ago. Not completely. But now I can, and so can you.

Whatever you have need of, whatever you are "waiting" on God for, whether it be a job, financial resources, a spouse or family member......HE KNOWS. Trust Him with everything and in everything. Let his Word mold you, let the situations change you, that you trust him completely. Live in the Peace that He's already given you, and in HIS time you'll get what He has for you and it will be EXACTLY what He wanted for you. But don't miss what could have been the biggest blessing....the change, the renewed relationship with Him, the peace that passes all understanding, the "blessing" in the waiting.

 Love,
Diana

Comments

Post a Comment

Your Sweet Comments Are Loved~

Popular posts from this blog

Touching The Hem Of His Garment

It's day 6 of my 21 day fast and I have discovered just how much I have relied on social media for my daily encouragement. It's so easy , one click of my mouse and it's there for me to see. A short cut of sorts, a quick fix in a world , my world, that is constantly moving and changing. But when I dig into my daddy Gods word, when I take the time to seek Him, the encouragement is more....So much more. Today I am encouraged by the woman who suffered with the issue of blood. For 12 years she suffered a life of misery and in her culture was considered  unclean. It was a chronic condition which means she probably had anemia as well as  physical weakness. She was hopelessly incurable by the many doctors she had sought out for medical care. She had become destitute for she spent all that she had. Everything and everyone who she would come in contact with would have become ceremonially unclean making her shunned by all in society including her family. Her husband probably
3 comments
Read more

Sifting Before the Shifting

I have been hearing the Lord say " shift" for the last year.  Shift in the atmosphere, shift in our nation, shift in the church, and a shift in me.  When I think about the word shift, I see a grand swope of the hand of God moving all into a direction of peace and wholeness.I believe without a doubt He is doing so, however I never once entertained the though He'd have to do some sifting.... sifting in me. Sifting is a process, a two part process, when sifting wheat. First comes the threshing, the beating of the grain using a flail. Second part is the winnowing, throwing the mixture in the air allowing the wind to blow away the lighter chaffs and the heavier grains to fall back down for recovery.  I take a closer look at this process and begin to meditate on how it applies to my life. The threshing  is the process of removal; removing those things which will cause me to stumble.When God begins to remove, He does so with the intent of replacing; replacing with those
3 comments
Read more

When My Puzzle Pieces Do Not Fit

    Putting a puzzle together can be fun, enjoyable and somewhat a relaxing time when the pieces all fit correctly the first time.  However when it is a puzzle with thousands of little pieces that require a great deal of time trying to figure out what piece goes where it can become frustrating, at least for me. Many times I have had to rely on the box top picture to navigate me through the placing of each piece and even that process can be irritating. Eventually the pieces do all fit exactly the way they were created to fit and the perfect picture is formed.It is a victory of sorts for me as patience is not my best quality.  But what about when our life's pieces are not fitting together? I had this certain picture I created in my mind, a picture how my own pieces were to fit together, my perfect box top per say. However the pieces I chose I could not force them to fit. No matter how I placed them, pushed them together, they still would not connect. My box top picture was
2 comments
Read more