The Waiting Room

You're in the waiting room anticipating an appointment with a doctor to get an issue examined that's been plaguing you for some time. Maybe you're sitting. Maybe you're pacing. Whatever it is you're doing you're anxious for your turn. Ready to hear your named called. This is a place almost everyone has been and I'm pretty sure no one has enjoyed. No one likes being in the waiting room.

Some of us are in the waiting room of life. Waiting for a miracle. Waiting for an answered prayer. We are pacing our way through each day anticipating our name to be called.

It's a tough place to be. It takes enormous amounts of patience. It's so easy to get frustrated. To feel forgotten and downtrodden. Or to even grow angry when things don't happen in our own timing.

But, what if there was joy found in the waiting room. For children, they put tables with lego tops, wall mazes or play kitchens in the waiting room to keep them occupied during those long waits. And for them the time passes more quickly.  For adults they put magazines or books and almost all of us carry a phone we can turn to for distraction and if we put those things to good use time can go more quickly for us as well. But we have to have the right attitude. If we grumble and complain it makes no difference what we do, we will have a miserable time. But if we choose to make the best of it, there is joy to be found.

I believe there's joy to be found in the waiting room of life as well. 

"Wait on the Lord;

Be of good courage,

And He shall strengthen your heart;

Wait, I say, on the Lord!" Psalms 27:14 NKJV

Now, what if that verse means more than just sit and wait for the Lord to do what He is going to do. I like this version because it says "wait ON the Lord" while some say "FOR". I like to believe this means more than just twiddling our thumbs as we wait but that we should literally, serve the Lord as we are waiting.

Praise Him in the waiting room. Worship Him. Pray. Sing. Share. Every day. Every moment you are waiting on that answer, that miracle.

We should be filled with hope and joy as we wait. After all, we are waiting to be ministered to by the Great Physician. The One who has unlimited knowledge and wisdom. The One who knows EXACTLY what the problem is, knows EXACTLY what to administer for the solution and is ever faithful to answer the prayers of those that are earnestly seeking Him!

I encourage you, whatever it is you are waiting for, the salvation of a loved one, chains of affliction or addiction to be broken, a home, healing, whatever it happens to be, wait ON Him, with joy and gratefulness, as you wait FOR Him and rest in the assurance that it may not be in our timing but it will be in the best timing!