Pastor Angela Fox

There’s nothing quite like learning to wait on God.  It’s so frustrating to feel like you are just waiting.  I don’t like waiting for much of anything.  I don’t like waiting at stoplights, I don’t like waiting in the drive-thru line, I even don’t like waiting in line at Disneyworld (yes, it’s true).  When we think about the word wait, it has several meanings.  Waiting - to remain inactive until something expected occurs…Seriously, who wants to be inactive when you are expecting something?  Inactive means “idle”.  Just standing still not knowing if the expectancy inside will actually become “real”….

Wait can also mean to serve someone or something else, to “wait on” them.  So, while God is taking care of things that I can’t control, rather than just being inactive and expecting him to do something, I want to be waiting on him.  Meaning, I want to serve Him in the waiting.  While my expectation is still to going to happen, I want to be actively serving God with everything I am, not doing nothing, not just running in place and wasting my time, going nowhere.  What is wasting my time anyway?  What is preventing me from waiting on (serving) God?  Is it an idle mind?  Is it idle time? Is it idle conversation?

II Timothy 2:15-17 (Amp)

5Study and be eager and do your utmost to present yourself to God approved (tested by trial), a workman who has no cause to be ashamed, correctly analyzing and accurately dividing [rightly handling and skillfully teaching] the Word of Truth.

    ¹⁶But avoid all empty (vain, useless, idle) talk, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness.

I don’t want to be idle or inactive….I want to wait on the Lord in my serving, staying on track with my mind and conversations and let Him take care of the rest!