I wrote on recent posting on God’s guidance in ministry. Another factor that is part of the mix of God’s guidance is the face that sometimes (often ?) God puts us in situations that require us to “wait on God.”
It is interesting to trace the theme of “waiting on God” through the Psalms and in the lives of Old Testament characters.
What emerges is the impression that God is not in a hurry. We are.
John Piper, in a great sermon called Battling the Impatience of Unbelief, commented,
The opposite of impatience is a deepening, sweetening willingness to stand in the place that God has appointed or to move at the pace that God has appointed…to stand in God’s place or go at his pace. God often moves at a slower pace than we want him to move.
