While you wait
Trusting God in the Silence and the Delay
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him. — Psalm 37:7
Life is filled with waiting. As we start our lives, we cannot wait to get older. We count down to birthdays, to driving, to graduation. But as we grow, we learn that waiting does not stop; it just changes. We wait to finish school. We wait to find a spouse. We wait to find the right career. We wait for children, and then we wait for those children to grow. We wait for moments to shift, for prayers to be answered, for things we have believed for so long that the believing itself has started to feel heavy.
Waiting is one of the most constant experiences of human life. And yet it never gets easier.
David understood this. Psalm 37 was not written by someone who had everything figured out and was dispensing advice from a comfortable distance. David had been anointed king as a young man and then spent years hiding in caves, running from the very man who sat on the throne he had been promised. He knew what it meant to hold a promise in one hand and an impossible circumstance in the other. He knew the particular exhaustion of waiting on something God had clearly spoken while the evidence said otherwise.
And his counsel is not simply to wait. It is to rest while waiting.
That distinction matters more than it might initially seem. Waiting without resting produces anxiety. It produces the kind of impatience that leads us to take matters into our own hands, to force outcomes before their time, to make decisions driven by frustration rather than faith. We have all done it. And we have all seen how it tends to turn out.
But resting in the LORD while we wait is something different entirely. It is an active trust. A deliberate choice to remain still in spirit even when everything in us wants to move. It is the belief that God’s silence is not the same as God’s absence. That the delay is not a denial. That what has not yet happened is not the same as what will never happen.
Impatience is rarely just about time. At its core, it is a trust issue. When we struggle to wait on God, it is often because some part of us is not fully convinced that He is working in the quiet. That He has not forgotten. That the waiting room we are sitting in is actually a preparation room, and that what is being prepared is worth the wait.
God is rarely early by our standards. He has never once been late by His.
Whatever you are waiting on today, a prayer still unanswered, a promise still unfulfilled, a season that has stretched far longer than you expected, the instruction remains the same. Rest in the LORD. Not passively. Not with gritted teeth. But with the quiet confidence of someone who knows the character of the One they are trusting.
He has not forgotten you. He has not lost track of what He promised. And what He is doing in the waiting is part of the plan too.
Rest. He is working even now.
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God bless you Jared.