WAITING IS WARFARE!!!!

People call it impatience, I call it a battle many do not want to fight. People stay busy, occupied, entertained, self-promoting, all because waiting is warfare and most people are not interested in the fight. This is not an inditement on anyone, it is a truth we don’t talk about and don’t teach people how to do.

When I was newly married, my husband used to tell me I was impatient. He said you want everything right now. I did not see it, he saw it, but I heard him and realized he was right. I did not know how to wait. This is not about getting irritated at a long red light, or being frustrated with being on hold while waiting for the bank to pick up your call. This is the need to make something happen now, because I did not know how to wait.

The wait is hard, it develops patience yes, it develops perseverance for sure, it develops much need character qualities, but the wait is about trust more than what you are waiting for. I thought waiting was about development, but waiting is a war of trust. The enemy does not want us to wait, for the enemy does not want us to trust God.

Trust is a weapon we gain in waiting, it is a weapon that defeats the devil ways we do not understand, for trust is powerful. Is it any wonder people struggle to trust God or trust people? Trust is what the enemy steals from us when we are young and then keeps convincing us we cannot do over the years of our life. Why? Because trust is a weapon.

The Lord has us waiting not to punish us but to teach us to trust Him. Psalm 69:1-3 says, “Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.” Waiting is warfare, but the reward of waiting is trust and trust is a weapon that once you get it back, you will never let go of again.

We are trust deficient, so the waiting is giving us an abundance of trust that will cause us to win wars with ease. Our sword of trust will be sharp and we will have learned in the warfare called waiting that we learned to trust God and trust people. It will be worth the wait.