Tired of waiting?

How waiting can be a benefit to your personal growth.

I don’t like to wait and you probably don’t either, yet as difficult as it may seem waiting is essential for our growth and development.

We all have to wait in certain moments in our lives. We have to wait for a doctor’s call. We have to wait for an email responds. We wait in lines at the grocery store. We wait in traffic for the green light. We wait for a prayer to be answered. We all have to wait.

 To me waiting is somewhat inconvenient. But waiting builds my patience and trust in God.

Have you ever had to wait for something you really desired to have right now?

See, if God grants us everything we desire, when we desire them we would be in bad shape. God is better interested in your growth and in your relationship with Him. God is interested in making you who hecreated you to be rather than who you want to be. (You can tweet that, maybe?) After all what good is it to live life and miss the real reason you were created for?  

To me, waiting is not sitting around doing nothing. I believe waiting is trusting God for the outcome. Waiting is also taking action. Do what you can do, and then rely on God for He will perform the miracle.

 You should be growing while you’re waiting. You might not have what you want to have, or  be where you want to be in life because your waiting for an outcome, but while waiting allow God to mold your character and your emotions when you allow him to develop you on the inside, it is far greater than growth on the outside. So when you get to “the place” where you desire you will be equipped and edified, strong and changed.

Growth

Here is a story to illustrate my point that I once read online. A man found a cocoon of a butterfly.
One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole. Then it stopped, as if it couldn't go further. So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bits of cocoon. The butterfly emerged easily but it had a swollen body and shriveled wings. The man continued to watch it, expecting that any minute the wings would enlarge and expand enough to support the body, neither happened! In fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around. It was never able to fly.

How sad but true. Many people refuse to allow God to take them through the process of growth through waiting, so the go ahead and do it on their own and never really fully grow to be all who they were destined to be. Let us be the people who wait on God. Let us be the people who move as far as we can go and then trust God for the outcome. He knows what he is doing to grow us and develop us to full maturity.

Development

A pregnant mother knows that although this pain she feels as she carries new life inside of her womb; she must fulfill the usual 9 month pregnancy process for the full development of the baby. She can’t give up the process unless she aborts the life she carries. This new life comes through waiting. This new life comes through pain.  This new life is birth after the process of development and growth.

What will you believe God to do? What are you waiting for? What are you doing while you wait?

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