Waiting

Isaiah 40:31
³¹ Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.

Ever since I can remember, this has been one of my favorite verses of Scripture. If I wait on the Lord, He will provide. It's an amazing message…that has really got messed up in my head. This is the verse I've turned to when things just weren't going right. In the midst of my struggles I'd pray, "Lord, I'm waiting for you to do something." It was more like, "Lord, I'll sit tight in my self-pitying funk, waiting for you to clear out the clouds of my circumstances and bring a rainbow of promise." Well, thanks to John Waller, I've got a new perspective. In his song, While I'm Waiting (from the album The Blessing), he writes something profound.

While I'm waiting
I will serve You
While I'm waiting
I will worship
While I'm waiting
I will not faint
I'll be running the race
Even while I wait

Waiting on the Lord doesn't mean sitting around until God does something. It's actively serving. Actively worshipping. Actively joining God in whatever He's doing in the mean time. It's not the definition of waiting that I grew up with. Yet it makes so much sense. No matter how tough (or confusing, or unsettled, or frustrating) I think my life is at the moment, I still have the joy of serving God while He works to reveal the answers in my life. I want to be one who waits like that. You?