Waiting Is The Hard Part. Join Lady Renee Flowers of Transformation Community Church for this week’s Winning Women Wednesday, where she talks about “Waiting Is The Hard Part”. We hope you’ll be blessed by this timely and inspirational message. Many blessings!
Waiting is the Hardest Part
Psalm 27:14 “Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart for the Lord.”
Micah 7:7 “But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.”
Psalm 37:7 ‘Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him.”
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Do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
(2 Peter 3:8)
Why is waiting so hard? Waiting can bring anxiety and a feeling of helplessness.
Today, many years after the apostle Peter wrote about this, we’re still waiting for Jesus’ return, when the Lord will make all things new.
And so in the wait, or while were waiting…especially when suffering hardship, you may find yourself asking, “How long, Lord, until you come again to make the world right?”
And we find Peter, echoing Jesus’ teachings about his coming judgment (Matthew 24:39, 43), which adds an insight about the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Instead of seeing the Lord’s delay as “slowness,” we should see his patience—or, in other words, his grace—for Jesus wants everyone to repent and believe in him.
In the meantime, while we continue to wait for our Lord’s return, we don’t need to live with anxiety or helplessness.
Peter encourages us from a posture of eternal security to live holy and godly lives as we look forward to Jesus making all things right.
In the last words we hear from Peter in the Bible, he sums up what it means to wait for Jesus: “Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen” (2 Peter 3:18).