Waiting

LORD, YOU know that patience is not my strong suit.

How many times did Momma, and Rick, say that I did not have patience to pee?!

And now, as a widow – there is anxiousness and fretfulness all wrapped up in the patience.

I have learned, and am learning more every day, to trust in YOU, LORD, when I am afraid, with all my heart. Leaning not on my own understanding.

In all my ways, learning to acknowledge YOU.

Hoping is more of a struggle.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

So, I ache in learning to keep my hope centered and focused on YOU, on YOUR Promises.

Because YOU do not disappoint, YOU do not discourage, YOU do not frustrate.

The greatest struggle is in waiting.

Waiting with patience.

Waiting and not over-waiting.

Waiting with a readiness to go and to do.

Waiting and not wasting the waiting time.

Waiting, Trusting, Hoping – a cord of 3 not easily broken.

LORD, help me with all 3.

And to know what to do while Waiting, Trusting, Hoping.

: John 14:1 – Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in Me.

• GOD, how do I let not my heart be troubled? I believe in YOU – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Please, Help Thou my unbelief.

: Psalm 27:14 – Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

• LORD, help me wait for YOU. Show me how to be strong, and how to let my heart take courage. That I may please and honor YOU as I wait.

: Hebrews 6:17-20 – So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of His purpose, He guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the Hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast Anchor of the soul, a Hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a Forerunner on our behalf, having become a High Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

• Strong encouragement. Hope. Anchor of the soul. 3 again. Thank YOU GOD . . . I love YOU . . .

In JESUS’ NAME I cry out . . .