Theoretical faith is always easier than practical, functional faith, and when we're faced with the challenge of waiting it can be disturbing to realise how little of that real-life faith we have. When forced to wait, we may find that what has given us peace and rest is not solid, functional confidence in God's presence, promises, power, wisdom and love. Perhaps instead what has given us our inner sense of well-being is our ability to figure life out and seeming power to control our circumstances, whether through intelligence, determination, prosperity, or something else. When God calls us to wait through circumstances we cannot understand and in places where important things are out of control, losing that inner peace can make life unbearably difficult.
Waiting will always reveal where you have placed your hope. Your heart is always exposed by the way that you wait.
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The whole world groans as it waits for the final renewal of all things that God has promised. You see, waiting is not an interruption of God's plan. It is his plan.
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Waiting is not just about what I get at the end of the wait, but who I become as I wait.
Broken-Down House, p115, 119, 123.
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