A purposeful pause




Be honest.  There are times you’ve wanted to shout ‘God!  Why don’t you DO something here!’ those times when you are waiting....waiting for something, anything.  And it seems God isn’t moving.

You’re in a pause….the space between… something ended and the next thing has yet to begin.  And you wait.  Often, the waiting is hard.  It can seem you’re waiting without direction and with no visible end in sight.  It can be desperate.  You NEED an answer or resolution.  And yet, you wait.

God isn’t cruel.  He doesn’t make us wait simply to spite us, or to gleefully delight in our frustration.  We see only what is right in front of us.  But He sees the entire story, from start to finish, with all of its moving parts.  Every season of waiting is a purposeful pause.  There may be something we need to learn in the process, or it may not be about us at all.  Sometimes God uses our story to encourage, bless, or teach someone else.  It comes down to this…do you trust Him?  If you do, then you can rest assured that any waiting is purposeful and measured. 

Isaiah 40:31 says “Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not be weary, they will walk and not faint.”  Wait.  Strong’s Concordance says the word ‘wait’ means not just ‘wait’ but to ‘look for, hope and expect’. It also means to ‘collect or bind together’. 

So God is reminding us to collect ourselves, hold it together and be hopeful.  He’s got this.  Whatever waiting you are enduring is a purposeful pause, masterfully designed to achieve exactly what He intends.  Trust Him and wait with hope.

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