A Norvell Note for August 2, 2021
Vol. 24 No. 30
Now You Wait
Now you wait.
These may be some of the least favorite words we ever say or hear.
You rush to get to your appointment; you feverishly make it just in time, only to learn that they are running behind. So, now you wait.
You have been driving all day and ready to get to your hotel when you see brake lights up ahead, and the GPS says, “There is a 25-minute delay up ahead.” Now you wait.
Your meeting begins at 10:00 AM. You shuffle your appointments to make the meeting. You and the rest of the team arrive when you learn that the person in charge is on a phone call. Now you wait.
You are in your car and headed to the airport a little to pick up your friends when you learn the flight will is late. Now you wait.
You are tired, your kids are tired and cranky, and you are all hungry. So you order your food now you wait.
Your team is winning the game, and you are ready to celebrate when there is a long delay to review a play. Now you wait.
You endure another series of grueling tests, the results go to the lab, and now you wait.
Waiting is an inevitable part of life. We wait to be seated at restaurants. We wait for calls. We wait for responses. We wait for news. We wait for the waiting to end.
Waiting is almost always a challenge. We have plans, we have hopes, and we have dreams we wait to come true. We wait for questions to be answered. We wait for answers to our prayers. Waiting can crush us if we allow it. “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” (Proverbs 13:12)
Waiting can also remind us of our hope for seeing the goodness of the Lord.
I remain confident of this:
I will see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the Lord. (Psalm 27:13-14)
Waiting can assure that our hope is in the Lord, and He will renew our strength. We will eventually run and not go weary, and we will walk and not be faint.
Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope (wait) in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint. (Isaiah 40:28-31)
Now we wait and our hope in the Lord.
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