Are you Waiting on the Lord?

The past two weeks, I’ve started a detail that is scheduled to last 90 days.  It’s been a very interesting time getting to know new people who I am expected to lead forward.  In order to do that, I have to lean even more on God.  The higher you get in a career or in life, the more responsibility you have and the more you’re depended on for guidance.  I know that God has already given me everything I need to do this job, but in order to do the job the way God desires, I have to wait on Him to renew my mind and my strength.  

Whenever you are responsible for other people, there will be times they surprise you and exceed all expectations and there will be other times they will do the opposite.  People are fallible and make mistakes.  So when God calls you to lead, you are responsible to be an example to them and love them just as God loves us…..to show grace.  Yes, there are consequences for choices and we all make wrong ones occasionally.  For the Christian, many of them occur when we get ahead of the Lord.  We decide he isn’t moving fast enough or we give ourselves permission to handle something on our own.  

What are you moving too fast on that you now see how your timing was off?  I heard a minister say recently that sometimes we move earlier than we should and birth something that can’t be sustained because it was premature and not fully formed with God’s hand on it.  If we want to succeed at whatever it is we are working to accomplish, we have to wait on the Lord (Psalm 90:17).  Real success looks like whatever God has called us too.  It does not look like having a lot of money or a lot of press.  It looks like God’s favor on our lives (Psalm 5:12, 84:11).  When we wait on the Lord he will renew our strength (Isa 40:31) and He will complete the work He has begun in us (Phil 1:6) – in His timing and not ours (Isa 49:8).  

Are you waiting on the Lord?  Or are you moving in your own time?  I pray you’re waiting on the Lord – it will make your life more meaningful and more abundant.