while waiting

God is teaching me a lot about waiting on Him.  Waiting is not a time where everything is put "on hold."  Quite to the contrary.   Waiting seems to be an especially active time, where new opportunities for response in Christ pop up at most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.  His story.

How do I know God's hand is in it all?  Because in each circumstance He has prepared me beforehand for the faith response or equipped me in it.  His fingerprints are all over each and every little piece that fits together.  Look for Him in your life.  He's at work.

I don't know if He has said "no" to our personal prayer.  But I do know He has said "not yet."  And during this "not yet" time I must respond in faith to each and every person and opportunity He places in my day.  I smile from the inside out when I reflect on how He works.  I'm filled with joy when there's a glimpse of Him in the unseen.  Thank you, Jesus.

Dear readers, we simply cannot take in how active and present God is in the world today.  He is working out His plans and His purposes to His glory.

Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.  For momentary,  light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.  (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)