Have you ever felt in your
bones that things are about to change, even though nothing has happened?
I've felt that a lot recently.
We are adopting (AKA
"waiting") and have been in the Paperwork Purgatory that is both
completely normal and completely horrible. In addition to a few other
things I've been waiting on for, let's see, forever. But I've felt a
strange tingling of release, of coming freedom in the air. I may be
completely wrong, and I prefer to base my life on the rock of eternal words
rather than my silly gut, but we'll see.
I recently read this post by Ashley Fisher (a friend of a friend) on Isaiah 40:31 “Those who WAIT on the Lord will
gain new strength, they will rise up on wings like eagles, they will run and
not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.”
She said that even while we're waiting for deliverance we should be expecting God to act. I guess I've always thought the Godly way to wait was to give up and hang out until "something just worked out". But in
Psalms, David wrote that he would "keep on hoping in You". In the midst of running and running and
running from his country’s murderous king, David kept on believing he would eventually be rescued (and he was).
She also talked about what
happens during the excruciating wait time. This so clicked with what God's been teaching me this week. He’s assured me that the waiting was for
a purpose - His purpose. He’s reminded me that I know so much more about
him and what he wants and the awesomeness he wants to be in my life. Here’s a quote from the post:
"Next, and this is going to blow your mind, or at
least it did mine, “Those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength.”
Renewing one’s strength in this passage literally means that one's old strength
passes away and a new strength comes up again. One's strength is altered, grown
up and changed for the better. What an amazing promise and blessing from “waiting.”
We will never again have the same strength after the waiting process God allows
. He will have let our old strength die so brand new, much better and stronger
strength could take its place, I believe, preparing us for the next time we
might need to wait on the Lord."
I’m
thankful for the deliverance that will surely come, but I think I’m as thankful
for the wait. I wonder what kind of king David would have been if not for the years spent living in a cave. David had his faults, but he was called "a man after God's own heart." A transformed heart sounds like a pretty good payoff to me.
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