I rarely talk about this because it’s such a personal struggle: I’m waiting on God to provide answers to questions I have, and it’s hard. Like, really really really hard! No one likes to wait, but especially me, I’ve always been proud of the fact that I had no patience. In my mind, I have no patience for anything that I consider foolishness, and as I’ve grown older, I’ve been quicker to cut my losses and move on to the next best thing.

That has typically worked, except when God gives clear directions that I’m to wait. Hmmm, no thank you God! I’ve found that I can say ‘no thank you’ all I want, but that does not changed my instructions.

Yesterday I had gotten to the point of giving up, for about the hundredth, if not the thousandth time. I texted my accountability partner and told her I’m done. Like a good partner, she tells me that I’m not and that she’s praying for continued strength. Fine! I’m not done yet, but I’m really struggling. As I’m sitting on my commuter train, a guy comes on in a brown t-shirt with a bold ‘Isaiah 40:31’ with the words ‘soaring on eagles wings’. You see, I know that passage really well. I’ve only read it about a thousand times, especially at the beginning of my waiting time.

I got home, and because I’m still in a mood, I opened my bible and it opens to Isaiah 39, I flip the page, because the devotion is on the next page, which references Isaiah 40:31. And again, when I wake up to my morning devotion, the word she focuses on is ‘Wait’, and references, once again, Isaiah 40:31.

Have you ever crossed your arms over you chest and tried to glare at your parent? I have that same mental image of that’s what I’m trying to do, except I know I can’t get away with it, and my instructions are to submit to God and my instructions.

As I’ve already mentioned the passage in Isaiah 3 times, this is what Isaiah 40:30-31 says, ‘even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint’.

Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you that you know everything about us, including when we are weary. We thank you for providing encouragement along the way of what you have called us to do, and instructions of how to keep going. Lord, help us to put all our trust in you, because you are faithful!