Waiting

Trust, Part Three: the waiting factor

2014-08-18T22:34:45+00:00By Joel|discipleship, prayer, trust, Waiting|

I know that I'm in the middle of a series on "trust," but since the topic is pretty much synonymous, I decided to include this bit on "waiting." I wrote the following article for a prayer site that I've been developing:Waiting is something synonymous with being human, and something that has been a muse for my creativity for some time now. I actually wrote a song entitled “Waiting” that is on my CD Depravity, Grace and Reckless Abandon. The lyrics go:This road is dustyAnd it’s getting to my eyesSo that I can’t see where I’m goingOr even the time But I’ll trust in YouThough it feels hurtin’ to meAnd though I can’t see Job, Abraham and SarahWe could [...]

Waiting

2014-08-26T03:01:22+00:00By Joel|Waiting|

Waiting (aka: the lesson that we keep learning until we 'get it', then we spend the rest of our lives 'perfecting' it) is an anchor that God uses to shape us like no other. An anchor, because it will either make you stand strong...or it will make you sink. [insert wink] I was recently at a leadership class, and as a group we all were to write down an influential instance in our life that play a role in the spiritual, experiential, relational, or instructional process that developed a quality in our lives. After thinking for a while, I felt like God revealed to me that the periods of waiting (spiritual wilderness, unanswered prayers, etc) have [...]