Jesus said, “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.” (Acts 1:4)
In the apostle Paul’s letter to the Galatians he writes, “Let us not become weary in well doing” (Galatians 6:9). This was a reminder to his brothers and sisters in the faith to keep on keeping on with their good works for God’s glory, regardless of the response they were receiving. To be sure, there are a myriad of discouragements that can cause us to grow weary in well doing. Yet, today, I want to encourage you not to grow weary in waiting. Speaking from personal experience, I grow far more weary in waiting than I do in well doing.
The deafening silence from God in seasons of waiting can be a source of great discouragement if we are not careful. We receive no response from God. We sense only silence from heaven. And so, we do everything in our power to create our own noise to stir up both the silence and the stillness that rub against the grain of our soul. But God had installed both seasons of well doing and waiting in the lives of His children. When we keep going and sowing, we have a tendency to shift from working in the power of the Spirit to the self. We thwart God’s timing and hinder His help.
Jesus knew His disciples would fail in their own strength 2000 years ago, and He knows His disciples will fail in their own strength today. When we sense we are struggling with our season of waiting we are to remember these words from the apostle Peter, who also struggled with waiting while he walked with our Lord during His ministry:
“But do not forget this one thing dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.” (2 Peter 3:8)
Let that truth set us free from growing weary in well doing and in waiting and God will be glorified and others will be blessed, including me and you.
This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT . . . AMEN!
Grace for the Race 