Yes, wait.

"Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried;
Quietly, patiently, lovingly, God replied.
I plead and I wept for a clue to my fate...
and the Master so gently said,"Wait."
"Wait? you say wait?" my indignant reply."
Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!
"Is your hand shortened? Or have you not heard?
By faith I have asked, and I'm claiming your Word.
My future and all to which I relate
hangs in the balance and you tell me to Wait?"
I'm needing a 'yes', a go-ahead sign.
Or even a 'no,' to which I'll resign.
You promised, dear Lord, that if we believe,
We need but to ask, and we shall receive.
Lord, I've been asking, and this is my cry:
I'm weary of asking! I need a reply.
Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate
as my Master replied again, "Wait."
So I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut,
and grumbled to God, "So, I'm waiting...for what?"
He seemed then to kneel, and His eyes met with mine...
and He tenderly said, "I could give you a sign.
I could shake the heavens and darken the sun.
I could raise the dead and cause mountains to run.
I could give all you seek and pleased you would be.
You'd have what you want, but you wouldn't know Me.
You'd not know the depth of My love for each saint.
You'd not know the power that I give to the faint.
You'd not learn to see through clouds of despair;
you'd not learn to trust just by knowing I'm there.
You'd not know the joy of resting in Me
when darkness and silence are all you can see.
You'd never experience the fullness of love
when the peace of My spirit descends like a dove.
You would know that I give, and I save, for a start,
But you'd not know the depth of the beat of My heart.
The glow of My comfort late into the night,
the faith that I give when you walk without sight.
The depth that's beyond getting just what you ask
From an infinite God who makes what you have last.
You'd never know should your pain quickly flee,
what it means that My grace is sufficient for thee.
Yes, your dearest dreams overnight would come true,
but oh, the loss if I lost what I'm doing in you.
So, be silent, my child, and in time you will see
that the greatest of gifts is to truly know me.
And though oft My answers seem terribly late,
My most precious answer of all is still "WAIT". "

There's not much that I can add to this poem, so I won't try.
I will say this: There's so much that you can't see. I don't
really like the word 'wait'. I hear all the time "just be patient
and wait"(AH!). However, waiting isn't always such a bad thing.
Waiting teaches you things that you might not be able to learn
any way else. It forces you to see things you might not otherwise
have seen. We have a God who sees all and knows all. He knows what is best for us.
Yes, so often we get impatient for things we want and God
answers with "wait", but I can see looking back on my life
those waiting times have been where I've seen God work the
most. I've learned to trust Him, and to rest in the fact that
He is in control. To think that if I wouldn't have had to wait,
how much I would have missed out on experiencing just a
little more of God's wonderful character. Corrie Ten Boom
once said, "Every experience God gives us, every person He
puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future
only He can see." God cares about us so deeply, all we need
to do is trust Him. He has a perfect plan. "Do not worry about
tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own." (Mark 6:34)
Don't live for tomorrow, you might miss out on what God
has for you today!

I seem to write, or have things to write about when I struggle the most. Sometimes I don't even have anything to write about, but I just start and go and see where it ends up. Well a lot has been going on in my life and sometimes through all of it, I get too caught up in it to stop and pray, and seek help. I started reading a book called Crazy Love by Francis Chan. I'll probably write another post about the book as a whole later, but theres one thing I want to share. First just watch this video.http://www.crazylovebook.com/videos_awe.html Isn't that amazing. Now I think about that, how big, how magnificent God is to create all of that. Then I think of all the things in my life that are hard. And before I think about how big God is, I think of how my problems seem so hard and I don't know how I'll ever get through. But after I think about how big God is, those things don't seem so bad. To know that God, who created all of that, loves me and cares about my life. He can handle my struggles. There's nothing too big or too small for Him to handle. Praise God, what a wonderful Heavenly Father. Just watching that video, makes me feel so small, and God cares about my every need. So much so that He sent his one and ONLY son to die in my place. Can you imagine? Can you imagine the person you love the most beaten, and nailed to a cross for your enemies. That's what we were, enemies of God. We violated His commands and were headed straight for Hell. But God didn't want to punish us, because He loves us so much. Ephesians 2:3-5 says, "Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved." We were saved by grace, because of His great love for us. I can never get tired of hearing that. It's the most amazing thing in the world. That's why we should share with others. You were offered the greatest gift anyone could ever possibly give, and it's offered to others. They may not know it, and you may be the only person who has a chance to tell them. Reflect on His love. Think of the sacrifice that was made for you. Rejoice, give thanks. And pursue His mission of sharing His love. That's the point of this post...just think about what Christ did for you, and think about how that affects your life and how you live it. May it cause you to worship.