When God Says Wait
“Do you trust me when the answer is wait?” This question has circulated through my brain for weeks now & just when I think I have the answer, I am confronted with the fact that I don’t trust God as much as I would like to think. My doubt makes its way to the forefront…do I really trust God? Do I trust him when things don’t go as I planned; when the answer is wait? Lately I feel like all of my prayers are being answered the same way…wait. Waiting for my visa. Waiting for my police clearance. Waiting to get back to South Africa. Sometimes I feel like the waiting will never end…like all I’m doing is waiting. Discouragement set in big time. I feel completely helpless; like no matter how hard I try, there’s nothing I can do to change it…nothing to make the waiting shorter…nothing to fill the time in between. Day after day I wait hoping that God will give me the go ahead but each day I am brought to a crossroad. Will I trust him in the waiting or not? But maybe that was the wh