WAITING WISELY

Waiting wisely is no simple matter. It is a disciplined behavior learned from past experiences. Sometimes it is ‘waiting on the Lord’ and more often I find it is a personal waiting…for several reasons… but usually it is because, ‘I’m not ready yet.’

I find that often doing the inner work needed has not been done…at least not completely. I recently heard this while driving, “Wait to hear, wait to see, wait to know; don’t wait to do.” It reminded me of the remark in James, “Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry” (1:19). Also, “But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves” (1:23).  

I could probably sit around for a few more days, months or whatever, saying, ‘I’m waiting on the Lord’ when I am really just waiting on my inner self to be convinced or my lack of inner preparation. We must do wise waiting to do wise work. There is nothing like doing to take away waiting.

“Everyone who hears my words and obeys them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.”
Everyone who hears my words and does not obey them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.”  Jesus