Waiting Room Choices
Waiting room experiences... No one ever chooses to be stuck in the waiting room. And everyone stuck in the waiting room is preoccupied with one thing - getting out. These experiences can crash upon us suddenly or swagger up slowly. They can catch us by complete surprise or approach in full view. They can arise from any number of circumstances and occur at every stage in life. They don't ask for permission, and they don't leave many options. In fact, in the waiting room there is only one real choice given to usL how we will respond to the waiting.Excerpt from
We cannot choose the circumstances that fall our way, but we do choose our response to them. We may not have everything under control, but no one else controls our response. God may allow a waiting room experience as a tool for our growth, but He does not dictate our response to it. The response of our heart and the attitudes of our will lie solely within the realm of our choice regardless of our circumstances.
You may want to kick or scream or run away, but the Lord says, "Accept the process and find rest in Me." As an individual, a family, or even an entire church, when the Lord puts you in the waiting room, will you fight Him or lean on Him? In the waiting room, what choice will you make?
Now What: Resting in the Lord when life doesn't make sense,
Chapter 2
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I'm sorry for the things I've made them out to be, for the times I relied upon my own strength and wisdom..thinking that I know better. The fact is, I don't know much...I don't even dare say I know myself fully. But You do... You do. So take the control and lead once again..and by Your mercy...restore. Restore what the locusts have eaten... restore us back to You. This is a plead, not a right, for I don't deserve it.
I don't ask You to take away the pain.. for haven't my own foolish flesh sought the path of comfort for itself enough? But I ask, with all my heart... let it be a right choice I have made. Let it be a choice that pleases You. And as I surrender before You, hide us in the shelter of Your wings.
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How long, O LORD?
Will You forget me forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?
How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and every day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?
Look on me and answer, O LORD my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death;
my enemy will say, "I have overcome him,"
and my foes will rejoice when I fall.
But I trust in Your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in Your salvation.
I will sing to the LORD,
for He has been good to me.
Psalm 13