Can I share a few lessons I've learned from the waiting game?
One of the most important lessons learned during the eight-year process of praying, rezoning, designing, and building Ebenezers was this: the longer you wait the more you will appreciate. We hate to wait. Right? But it's gratitude insurance. Waiting insures that we won't take for granted whatever it is that we were waiting for. If the process had taken half as long I honestly think we'd appreciate it half as much.
Another lesson learned is this: God is far more concerned with who you're becoming than where you're going. And He won't get you where He wants you to go until you're ready to get there! I just read this incredibly encouraging verse in Romans 8:25. I have a feeling this is what someone needs to hear today!
"The longer we wait, the larger we become."
One of the most important lessons learned during the eight-year process of praying, rezoning, designing, and building Ebenezers was this: the longer you wait the more you will appreciate. We hate to wait. Right? But it's gratitude insurance. Waiting insures that we won't take for granted whatever it is that we were waiting for. If the process had taken half as long I honestly think we'd appreciate it half as much.
Another lesson learned is this: God is far more concerned with who you're becoming than where you're going. And He won't get you where He wants you to go until you're ready to get there! I just read this incredibly encouraging verse in Romans 8:25. I have a feeling this is what someone needs to hear today!
"The longer we wait, the larger we become."
15 Comments:
yes, someone needed to hear this. That would have been me ;-) thanks PM
AMEN!!! So true PM, so true. It took me awhile to serve in my dream job and to be able to fulfill the passions and desires that God has placed inside of me. (Honestly, never thought it would happen, too many barriers in the way.)
I am so grateful to be able to do what I do and do it where I am at.
I am that guy.
Wow. Needed this one. SO good.
Dusty Takle
that was helpful. i'm a church planter and we're getting jerked around with our current meeting location. i guess waiting for a more permanent one will help me appreciate it more when the Lord provides it. thanks Mark.
Mark, thanks for the solid word. Currently on the waitlist for med school at GW. Great running into you on your way home yesterday, too. Boom, boom, FIYA POWA!!!
Thanks Mark. I needed to hear that as well!
So true...we live in an instant society and have lost the principle of delayed gratification. God wants to re-instill that in each of us; it is part of His plan for our lives.
my wife and I are raising our budget to become missionarie associates with Ia youth alive. It wears me down that it takes so long! I really needed that encouragment today. Thank you zoo much!
Thank you.
Yep, I needed to hear this, too. Thanks.
This would be for me! Thanks! God just came through with housing for us. Now I'm waiting on His will and word re: protege program. Learning to relish the "wait time" with Him. Also learning to rejoice in being "strictly trained."
He is All.
That is what I am learning as I look for a car now.
What's funny about it is that God is more interesting in who I become than where I go, but I still need a car so I can go!
Hi
It's Mark and i am a friend of Peanut Butter aka Phil Clifton
is there an email at the church where he can send his info
thanks
wow, so in this time, when i've been trying to hear what the Lord is telling me about my future, this is the word i hear. its not what i wanted to hear, it even upset me a little bit. but it's the good type of upset. it's the upset that stirs my spirit b/c i know it's God's doing. He is so inconvenient sometimes. yet, it always makes me laugh in retrospect.
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