We have all heard mature Christians state, "I'm waiting for God...." This is often followed by a sigh with or without a shrug of the shoulders. What does waiting for God produce in you? (Christian-speak translation: What is the fruit?)
Feeling impatient? Feel your time is being wasted?
Feeling bored, not knowing what to do?
Feeling rejected, forgotten or unimportant?
Maybe you don't have any of the reactions above. Then likely the best you can come up with is that it bears no good fruit. Either way there is no benefit, so why not stop saying, "I'm waiting for God"?
There is a another way that better communicates the waiting and produces good fruit. Instead just say:
I'm waiting with God.
Our minds have been trained to associate waiting for someone as that someone is not there. However, saying "I'm waiting with God" reminds you of the basic fact of New Testament Christianity that God is always with you. It reminds you that Christ abides in you. The Holy Spirit is not only always with you but always in you! Sometimes we do feel that God is somewhere else. This feeling is real but it is not reality. This feeling lies to you. You need to constantly and persistently remind yourself of the truth that God is always with you. That is why you need to say, "I'm waiting with God."
Furthermore, this produces even more good fruit in your soul when you also remember that God loves you. He is crazy about you and wants you to have good things. He wants good things for you that you never even thought of.
An all-knowing God wants these good things even more than you do!
So if the God who created you has to wait to fulfill His desire to give you the best with the best of timing, shouldn't you consider it an honor to wait with Him?
So let's all renew (i.e., retrain) our minds. Let's stop waiting for God and instead enjoy the privilege of waiting with God.
Just a suggestion . . . .
