Waiting can feel like the hardest part of the journey. You pray. You believe. You trust. But the answer doesn’t come, or it doesn’t come the way you hoped. In those long stretches of silence, it’s easy to feel overlooked, like maybe God forgot or moved on. But He hasn’t.
Isaiah 40:31 gives us this promise: “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
There’s power in the pause. There’s strength being built in the stillness. But it takes faith to believe that something unseen is happening while nothing feels like it’s moving.
Waiting is hard because it forces us to confront our desire for control. It exposes our timelines, our plans, and our expectations. We want immediate results and fast answers. But God operates outside of clocks and calendars. His pace is perfect, even when it feels painfully slow.
Still, the waiting season isn’t wasted. It’s where character is formed. It’s where dependence deepens. It’s where trust becomes a lifestyle. And many times, it’s the preparation for something we couldn’t have handled had it come too soon.
You may not feel like you’re soaring right now. You might not even feel like you’re running. But walking, step by step, day by day, holding onto hope, that counts too! That’s faith in action.
Instead of seeing the waiting as a delay, try to see it as an invitation. An invitation to draw closer, pray more honestly, and trust more fully. God hasn’t forgotten you. He’s working things out in you and around you.
And when the time is right, what He brings will be worth every second of the wait.
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