December 18 • A Time for Waiting

Let this season of your life be what it is.  Be content, so that when this season ends, you can be confident in the next. There is a time for everything, a season for everything under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 3] Someday, we’ll have what we are longing for today. We will find what we’ve been seeking. Or our longings will change. Either way, this time will come to an end. And part of you will miss it- the hopeful expectancy, the rush of the unknown. Having something to look forward to is part of the excitement. But at the end of this, will you be ready for what’s next, or hoping to go back?

This is the secret of wanting and being satisfied, to needing and needing no longer: I can handle all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13] Receive the blessing of hope: patient and joyful anticipation of what is to come. And celebrate the fact that you can only receive that blessing now, while you wait and watch and pray.