If you’re in a season of waiting, God has a powerful purpose for you during this time. Therefore, here are 6 things the Lord might be trying to teach you through your waiting.
1. Through Waiting God Will Teach You How to Be Positioned for a Breakthrough
God is gracious and loves to bless his children. Even when we make mistakes or rebel, God can turn what was meant for evil into good (Genesis 50:20). However, Scriptures are also clear that God allows us to reap what we sow (Galatians 6:7). Thus, there are times where God will let us miss a breakthrough because we were not properly positioned to receive it. Matthew 25:10-13 states:
And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”
If you’re not prepared for when the breakthrough comes, you can miss it.
2. Through Waiting God Will Teach You How to Refine Your Faith
When God requires you to wait, it can be confusing. God is not confused. He has a plan. But when we don’t know his plan yet, we can be tempted to lose faith through the confusion we are experiencing.
However, this is not what God wants. Rather, God wills that through the unknowns, our faith might be refined and strengthened. James 1:2-4, “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”
3. Through Waiting God Will Teach You to See Blessings That Were Hidden
One issue that can occur when you want something that you don’t have is that you might start devaluing what you do have. This is especially dangerous when you want an earthly blessing so bad that you are starting to forget about all the spiritual blessings the Lord has given you in Christ.
Ephesians 1:3 (NIV), “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.” Through a season of waiting, God can teach you to have a healthy desire for the good things you don’t have while also fully embracing and praising him for the blessings that are fully yours right now in Christ Jesus our Lord.
4. Through Waiting God Will Teach You How to Love Others Better
It might feel like everyone else has everything they’ve ever wanted while you are the only one waiting. But this is not true. Everyone is waiting for something. And some may be struggling with waiting more than you realize. If you’ve never had to wait and you always got what you wanted right when you wanted it, you would be unhelpful to the rest of us.
When you’ve been trained by God to wait faithfully, you can then help other people be trained through their season of waiting too. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 states:
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”
5. Through Waiting God Will Teach You How to Manage What He Plans to Give You
God always wants to bless us, but he sometimes waits so that his blessing will actually be a blessing to us. In other words, if God were to give us things before we were ready to properly manage them, these blessings would become a curse. Proverbs 20:21, “An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.”
This is not to say that everyone who doesn’t have what they want is simply too immature to handle the blessing they are asking for. That is too simplistic of a statement to be applied to all people and situations. But this a possible explanation for some people when it comes to some blessings.
Either way, it’s always wise to use your season of waiting to prepare for what you hope to have one day. Proverbs 6:6-8, “Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.”
6. Through Waiting God Will Teach You How to Rely on Him in All Things
Once you get what you have been hoping for, it will come with unforeseen challenges. Through the waiting that comes before the blessings, God wants to teach you how to fully rely on him in both good and bad times (Philippians 4:12-13).
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