Waiting to Exhale

“Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; and therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him.” (Isaiah 30:18)

God, the Creator of time and space, is not in a hurry. He is pretty much like Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett, Waiting To Exhale His blessing and His breath, the Holy Spirit, upon us. Moses had to wait 40 years in the Midian desert to receive the call to lead his people out of Egypt. Joseph was made to wait 13 years before he was delivered from slavery and imprisonment to be The Prince of Egypt. It took 14 years for Jacob to win his beloved Rachel and another 6 years before he was released from his uncle Laban’s shenanigans and control. Abraham and Sarah were around 100 when they finally received Isaac, the son of promise, after 25 years of waiting.

God called each of these servants to perform a certain task in His Kingdom, and yet He was in no hurry to fulfill their mission because He had to accomplish what He wanted in them. We are often more focused on the outcome than the process that God is accomplishing in our lives. When we experience His presence daily through the Word or these emails, we will One Fine Day be like George Clooney and realize that God has done something special in and through our lives. The accomplishment is no longer what drives us. Instead, what excites us is knowing God intimately as we become more acquainted with His Word, His agape love, His grace, His mercy, His holiness, His righteousness and His power.

When this happens, we are no longer focused on the outcome because the outcome is a result of our spiritual walk with God, or in Spanish, Vaya Con Dios. When Joseph became The Prince of Egypt, he did it without Dreamworks because he had come to a place of full surrender that he, like James Bond, was not worried about tomorrow, for Tomorrow Never Dies. We too must wait for God’s impeccable timing and embrace wherever we are in the process, no matter how uncomfortable we may be. When we find contentment therein, we begin to experience God in ways we never thought possible and we, unlike Bill Clinton, can simply inhale.

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