Jesusluvsall's Blog

I have heard it many times that there are three possible answers to prayer, yes, no, and wait. Yes is so easy to accept. When God says yes, it is easy to jump up and down and get all excited.

When the answer is no, for me, it is an answer that eventually I can accept and move on.

But when the answer is WAIT??? Sometimes I feel like this after a short time wondering when it will happen.

Yes I know I need to trim my beard but that is beside the point 🙂 I posted this picture on my instagram account encounterswiththeancients_matt about desperately waiting for spring. The calendar says it is spring. The tree pollen is letting me know it is spring, but we are having record cold this weekend.

Waiting for spring is nothing really. In a few more days it will be warmer here and I know that. Waiting for the Lord can be a different matter. Pray about something and then waiting? I can tend to anxious wondering WHEN.

My second trip to Romania to teach English, in June 1998, we were delayed an hour leaving Amsterdam for Bucharest. I prayed on the plane for us to get going. I knew what it meant. The missionaries were waiting for us at the airport and that we would arrive in Constanta late. We finally got to Bucharest and got on the chartered bus to head to Constanta and along the way the bus driver started swerving around things. I looked out the window and saw fallen branches in the road. A strong storm had come through not too long before we drove through the area. If we had arrived on time, we would have been driving through that storm and perhaps been in danger. I learned from that tangible moment that wait means trust.

Trust in God’s timing. He is eternal and sees everything past, present, and future all at the same time. He knows what is ahead of me, the dangers, pitfalls, the whens and hows of things coming together. Those trips in Romania I relied on translators to guide me through the city and culture. Trusting God means relying on him to guide me through life. He loves us more than anyone else ever will, so we can trust him for the timing of the answers to prayer. To be honest, it isn’t always easy to do, but it is so worth it. It helps me to not be so anxious if I remember that God has my best interests in my mind.