The verses on waiting over the last few weeks… still stir in my heart… perhaps because I’m doing some waiting…
I think of the patient farmer James tells us to be like…
waiting patiently for what’s been planted… hidden… in the ground…
Waiting… for growth… for change…
seems to come from something…
hidden away… out of sight…
Jesus told us about another farmer…
scattering seeds… crops growing…
but the farmer has no idea how it happened…
The woman who hid leavening in the bread…
she had to wait for it to grow…
This hiding… of Word…
waiting for the Kingdom to burst forth…
takes time… days and nights…
it begins where we can’t see…
and is a mystery to us who wait…
Some of the things I’m waiting on make my heart heavy…
make me groan with deep desire to see something happen…
I call on the Holy Spirit to interpret my groans…
intercede on behalf of those I groan for…
And this hidden thought comes to mind…
this reminder that I’m in a season…
of patient waiting…
Waiting for growth…
I don’t know how…
in a place I cannot see…
patiently waiting…
on Him who is trustworthy…
Amen…
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