You can't google God

 I hate waiting just as much as you do.  The word itself is like a cuss word and offends me  when its thrown at me - 'just wait"!- by anyone- including God. Don't you know I have things I have to do that are important?  I hate waiting in the line at the grocery store, while the people are digging for the coupons or checkbooks.  I hate waiting for my computer to re-boot when I am already late for work and I have 386 e-mails to sort through and packing lists to print out.  I hate waiting for people to respond to my "important" calls so I e-mail, text, and facebook them too.  I hate waiting in the doctor's or dentists office for an hour past my appointment time or for the package to come in the mail that should be here already. If I need to know right away,
I google it.  That impatience and inability to wait sinks down into the soul level too, and gets translated into accusation and blame towards the people that make me wait if I let it.  I even question their motives for making me wait, if it is someone that has authority over my life to make me wait (like God) .  The waiting is even harder when the stakes are bigger, like waiting for the return of prodigal children.  Waiting for the provision to come in for the step of faith you took.  Waiting for the answer to your prayer for healing, direction, peace and calling.

     If you are like me, you go through through the checklist to see if you have missed anything  and try to negotiate with God. ' I am generous, I pray and fast and go to church.  I floss, recycle, tell my wife I love her.  I am a good person-I did everything right!  ' why wont you do this for me?-  What did i do or not do to deserve all this?  

    I have learned that is the wrong question.  What we do or don't do most of the time has little to do with the waiting process.  We are told via the prophet Isaiah that if we 'wait on the Lord we will renew our strength"  We cannot google God.  He is in control not us or our circumstances. He has our best interest in mind when it comes to the timing.  When it seems like there is nothing happening above ground is when the roots are growing underneath.  Book of James says, "let  patience have its perfect or completing work.  The root has to go down deep enough to hold the weight of the fruit when it comes. 

      I have also learned that I am not an exception.  Usually its the bigger the promise, the longer the wait. I am reminded that Moses tended sheep for 40 years before he delivered Israel and David waited 14 years between recieving the promise to be king and actually taking the throne.  The processes during the wait of tending the sheep and hiding out in the caves made them who they were because their response was to wait.  Sometimes waiting is the highest form of faith and remember thats how we renew our strength.

       While we are waiting, the enemy of your soul will attack the foundation of your hope that God is good and that God sees your circumstances and is working in it. This is foundational that he is good and his mercy endures forever.  Jesus went about doing good and healing all, the devil is the one who steals, kills and destroys.  In God's omnipotence and omniscience and because of his great love, he is able to weave all of our life's experiences together, good and bad (Rom. 8:28) and work them out to our benefit.  He is more committed to your benefit and blessing than you  are.  Phil 1:6 says that 'he who began a good work in you will complete it.  Just wait and see.