Waiting On God

It’s so hard. It’s easy to think our only obligation is to ask God for something and just wait to see it happen. Or to see IF it happens. And in the event we don’t get what we ask for, we say, “I guess it just wasn’t in God’s plans.”

God’s plans.

He laid them all out a long time ago. Gave the blueprints to a bunch of different guys who put them all together in a book we call “The Bible.”

It’s really not that confusing.

If you’re living in the way God has it mapped out in His Word, you can go ahead and take the risks, dream the dreams, try the things. He says you can ask anything in His name He will do it. If we ask according to His will, God will hear our prayer.

Easy.

But it’s not.

Because a lot of the time in my own life, I’m not waiting around to find out if my will is His will too. I’m not seeking the answers where they’re easy to find. I’m not living out the promises in the Bible because I’m so busy trying to figure things out on my own. And I sure don’t wait around for a response after I ask God something.

I still ask.

But then I usually just go ahead and do whatever I was wanting to do in the first place, without waiting for His answer. And I didn’t look in His Word to see what He says about it. I didn’t seek His wisdom and direction that He already gave us in the most read but least comprehended book that I can think of.

It’s hard to slow down enough to wait on God–to absorb His Word and see what He’s really saying to us, before we jump off into deep waters we are then forced to cry out from for rescue.

And even when He sends someone to rescue us, we often turn and swim the other direction. Still trying to do things our way.

Still failing miserably.

Still asking God and thinking we’re waiting on Him when we didn’t wait at all.