by Paula Davis

How much of our lives do we spend waiting? We wait for traffic lights and for lines in the grocery store. We wait for doctors and for the healing to begin once they’ve diagnosed us. Waiting for the Lord used to seem like the hardest thing of all for me. I don’t know what I was expecting, maybe an audible voice from Heaven or for him to speak to me in my dreams or send an angel my way. What I have come to find in my life is that if I spend all my time looking for an answer the way I expect to find it, I may be missing the answer the Lord is providing for me. Sometimes it’s in his word or in a quiet prayer time. Often it’s from another person or in the world around me, reminding that God is faithful. At times the wait is longer than I think I can bear. In those times I must be strong, but not in my own strength. God provides the strength I need. If I don’t lose heart and I truly trust in him and wait for him, he is always there.