Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Waiting

Isaiah 40:31 - "...but those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength...

Here's some more nuggets of truth from Beth Moore in this week's study. This session was all about timing. How hard it is. How there's time to wait. Time to speak and time to be silent. All of that. She closed the session with this little nugget of truth, and read the scripture from Isaiah 40:31 - a verse that is very familiar to most of us. But she shared something that I hadn't thought about before. She talked about how most of us would agree that waiting is one of the most EXHAUSTING things for us - so hard, so draining, so exhausting. Yet that Scripture talks about waiting will renew their strength? Why? Because we are so often waiting on the THING (the job offer, the financial provision, the house to sell!!!!!, the baby to come, the change in schedule, whatever your THING may be) when instead we should be waiting on the LORD!!! That's the difference!!! So that's been my challenge for the last few days - that I'm going to wait on the LORD instead of the THING!

2 comments:

Heather J said...

That's so funny you posted this b/c I was just telling Mark this very 'lesson' this a.m. - you see, if we are waiting for our house to sell, we LOSE strength, but if we wait on the LORD, HE will strengthen us! It's so funny to sing those words so often but they now have so much more meaning to me!

dandsratz said...

Katy, I know these days are so trying for you, and exhausting. I know you well enough to know that its written all over your face every time I see you and in your spirit when we talk....but the Lord WILL provide you strength, and resolution to it all in HIS timing. It is with no doubt that we serve a very mighty God and everything IS SOOO perfect in His time--not ours!! Stay in the Word as much as you can...nap often and don't put too much on yourself. So Callie stands on the table & gets her adorable fiesty little self in nursery trouble (ha! :) )--this too shall pass!! And Jacob & Josiah will eventually grow "out of the force fighting!" :) It is still amazing to me HOW each one of these studies...even every lesson speaks to everyone of us, with all of our different needs at different times. The homework every day has been out of this world the last couple of weeks!! We have so much to learn from Esther, and her strength--no second guessing where it came from! :)