Wishing is easy. Watching is hard. Waiting is hardest.
All your life, you wish for everything to work out wonderfully–like a well orchestrated symphony combining melody and harmony together in a flawless and riveting concerto. Good luck.
I am a planner–I plan anything and everything. However, if I have learned anything this past year, it is that I cannot plan my life. I have tried endlessly to fight against this truth, only to end up exhausted, frustrated, and hungering for direction and purpose. Turns out uncertainty was not all I was fighting. I was fighting God.
Wishing for my life to turn out a certain way, hoping for the best, and always dreaming about the future is an easy thing to do. Watching other people’s lives come together, while you are struggling to find direction is not easy. It is hard. Eventually, your big dreams and fond hopes begin to diminish and you are left viewing your life from the back seat. You sit back and not only watch other’s lives unfold, you watch your own with no hope for the outcome. Well that was depressing.
You cannot wish your whole life, nor can you watch your life from the sidelines. The alternative? Waiting; it’s hard, no it’s really hard. It involved not dreaming aimlessly for the best, or reveling in self-pity, but humbly acknowledging that there is a time, a place, a season for everything under the sun, and the God of the universe is in control of life itself. Waiting patiently on God is the most beautiful thing. It involves complete submission to His will, not your own.
This does not imply a passive approach to life–one spent sitting around and lazily “waiting on God”. I have learned to take comfort in God’s plan for my life–His perfect plan. I have learned to act according to faith and trust in God, and then not worry about the rest.
Planning involves taking control of a situation, ultimately a situation belonging to God. Do not fight Him. Waiting is difficult because although His plan is perfect, it is perfectly unknown. However, act in faith and His plan will be made known. Trust and wait upon His name.
Wishing is easy. Watching is hard. Waiting is harder, but it implies perfect submission to God’s plan for your life. Be content where you are–you may not understand when, why, or how, but you don’t have to.
Wait on God; He’s waiting for you.
