Still Waiting
- Now Think On This
by Steve Martin
“And
so, having patiently waited, he (Abraham) obtained the promise.” Heb. 6:15 NASU
So how many years did Abraham wait for the promise?
His promised son? 5, 10, 15 years or more? It was 25 years after the Lord had
promised to Abraham that a son, whom he named Isaac, was born to Abraham and his
wife Sarah.
“Now the Lord said to Abram,
"Go forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father's house,
To the land which I will show you;
And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so you shall be a blessing;
And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse.
And in you
all the families of the earth will be blessed." Gen. 12:1-5 NASU
So Abram went forth as the Lord had spoken to
him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he
departed from Haran. Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all
their possessions which they had accumulated, and the persons which they had
acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to
the land of Canaan.” Gen. 12:1-5 NASU
Later in Gen. 21:5 it tells us that “Abraham was a hundred
years old when his son Isaac was born to him.”
Are you still waiting for a promise to be fulfilled that
the Lord had given to you? I know I am.
Sometimes I get tired of waiting. If I had my way, surely
those things I heard many years ago would have come to pass by now. I wouldn’t
have taken any detours; I would have stayed on the narrow path; I would have
known exactly what I was to do when I was to do it. But I didn’t have my way (or
maybe I did and that is why I am still waiting!)
Or maybe the Lord knew all my steps I was to take, and in
spite of all that, He still is working out His plan, on my behalf, and that I
will receive those promises. So that is what I will continue to believe.
Waiting on the Lord is a sign of faith. If you don’t have
faith, you don’t wait. You jump right in to what seems right, without seeking
the Lord for His direction, and you then reap what you have sown. But to wait,
day in and day out, year after year, requires a faith that His faithfulness
will be proven in the end. No matter what the circumstances look like now, you
have a confidence that the Lord’s word is true, and thus so it will be.
Whether the wait is for something to happen in a
relationship, a financial situation to come about, or there is a desire to get
married and raise a family…we each have dreams, hopes and promises that we wait
to come. It is in those times of days, months and years of waiting that our
maturity and confidence should be growing. After all, an oak tree doesn’t grow
up overnight. Neither does a city get built in a day.
As I head out to the car each morning for the daily trek up
the interstate to the accounting job, by faith I thank the Lord that the time
for this current assignment will come to an end, and the desires in my heart,
which I believe He put there years ago in my youth, are yet to come about.
Doing the best job I can, while on this job, says to the Lord, “I will be
faithful here as You yourself will prove of Your faithfulness when that time
comes.”
Waiting can be tough. Often we are tempted to give up, to
quit, to say I can’t keep up with this much longer. But as we take time to
spend with the Lord each day, to receive His encouragement, our hearts and
spirits will be strengthened. Grace will be available to wait the wait, and in
the meantime to be faithful where we are.
I am still waiting. I will continue to wait. For He is the
One I ultimately wait on, and time and time again He has proven Himself
faithful.
Now think on this,
Steve Martin
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Now Think On This #170
“Still Waiting” by Steve Martin
Date: In the year of
our Lord 2015 (04.16.15) Thursday at 1:00 pm in Charlotte, NC
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