Have you ever prayed for patience?
Well watch out
because
IMPATIENCE
will come running through the door
trying to steal the
peace that transcends all understanding.
IMPATIENCE~
"Intolerance of anything that thwarts, delays, or hinders.
Eager desire for relief or change; restlessness" (dictionary.com)
Wait breeds Impatience
when you are
Stuck in the MIDDLE OF WAIT~
Stuck in the WAITING room.
Have you been there?
You know the doctor is there.
You know you are on time.
You know that they could move a wee bit faster,
but you WAIT
because you are not in control.
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WAIT~
Awaiting a diagnosis. Awaiting surgery. Awaiting an answer
Awaiting for ____________.
What are you WAITING for?
How are you when you are STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WAIT?
WAITING IS WAITING
no matter how big or small your WAIT is,
but
it is more about how you are
when you are
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE
just
WAITING~
wanting to move forward while nothing is happening.
WAIT~
"to stay where one is or delay action until a particular time or
until something else happens" (Lexicon)
But
what if GOD'S plan is the
WAIT~
when you have no choice but to look up?
Today we remember the
Biggest WAIT~
JESUS is in the tomb.
Quietness fills the land as
their
JESUS
our
JESUS
is taken off from the cross & put in the tomb.
Questions arise~
If HE is our Messiah, where is HE now?
What do we do now?
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE
with nothing that you can do.
Stuck in the MIDDLE OF WAIT~
paralyzed
because there is nothing to do
but to
TRUST GOD
with
What HE said
&
What would HE do
&
When HE would do it.
But they forgot that
JESUS did say
WAIT"after three days HE will rise" (Mark 9:31).
How quickly I forget.
How about you when you are
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WAIT?
Do you forget what GOD has said?
Do you forgot what JESUS has done?
Do you forget that JESUS is with you
and wants to walk with you,
especially when you are
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WAIT?
WAITING
~for something to happen
~anticipating the something that is going to happen
~or fearful of the what may happen.
Are you STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WAIT?
But
where is JESUS?
HE is there. In the tomb.
Just WAITING for GOD'S perfect timing
when GOD'S power will raise HIM~
the same power that is within us.
JESUS hasn’t gone anywhere that HE wasn’t supposed to go.
HE was just following HIS FATHER'S will
so we could follow our FATHER'S will
even when we are
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE.
Because
JESUS did rise in three days
&
we will rise above whatever keeps us
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE.
JESUS was
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE
on the MIDDLE cross,
in-between two criminals while HE was
in the MIDDLE OF WAIT
when
a conversation took place.
The criminal looked to JESUS and said,
"JESUS, remember me when YOU come in YOUR kingdom!"
And JESUS responded,
"Truly I say to you, today you shall be with ME in Paradise" (Luke 23:42-43).
I bet the criminal was glad that it was
JESUS who was
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE
because now he would
WAIT
with
PEACE
JOY
&
HOPE~
no longer stuck
because
he trusted the
ONE in the middle.
It is in our
TRUSTING GOD
in the MIDDLE OF WAIT
when we are able to
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer" (Romans 12:12)
because
it isn’t about what you are WAITING for.
It is about
experiencing the
PEACE OF GOD
in the midst of the WAIT
whatever your WAIT may be.
We have to remain
stuck to GOD
because that is where we will experience
HIS PEACE
HIS JOY and
HIS LOVE
that covers all the fears and anxiety found
in the WAITING room.
So let's lose another stubborn pound and
FAST
from
IMPATIENCE
when you are
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WAIT
by
Looking to the
ONE
Who PATIENTLY WAITED
three days in the tomb
so that
HE would rise
in
GOD'S perfect timing
because
HE always does
what HE says HE will do
so
you can
"Be joyful always"
as you
"Pray continuously"
and as you
"Give thanks in all circumstances
for this is GOD'S will for you in CHRIST JESUS" (I Thessalonians 5:16-18)...
even when you are
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WAIT
because
"THE BEST IS YET TO COME" (listen to the song below)
because even when JESUS is asleep
HE IS
"STILL IN CONTROL" (listen to the song below)