Lord, Why Am I Still in the Waiting Room?
Understanding the Importance of How and Why to Wait Well
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“The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him” Lamentations 3:25 NAS I am one who doesn’t like to wait for anything. I want things to happen quick, fast and in a hurry especially if I am in the equation. What a bad way to be when we are not in control over anything but God. I said I waited on God to make things happen in my life but then I had to take a step back to see if it was really me hurrying things along. We have to wait on a lot of things in life. To be noticed, to be married, to have kids, to get a job, to get a promotion, to buy a house or car, to move, to get over hurt or disappointment. It’s always something and this could drive anybody crazy when you can’t control your own destiny. Now I can understand why people are so angry and bitter with life. It doesn’t make sense when they wanted what they wanted and God had another plan for them. It’s very difficult living in this world if you say you are one of God’s children and trying to make things happen when you want them to happen. Boy will your wait time seem forever. It reminds me when we have to go to the doctor because we know we need some help and answers about what we are going through. We have acknowledged we have something that is wrong with us and we need to seek the physician (God) to give us some answers on the matter. We go in confused, full of uneasiness, uncertainty and exhaustion. So many emotions that we should have given to God even before we entered in the waiting room. We go in with a premeditated notion that we will be out in a hurry and our problem solved quickly. Boy, have we bamboozled ourselves into a trick bag. We are already agitated because of the many people we see waiting and the uncertainty if we will get the answers that we want to hear. Well I stop by to tell you that life is about waiting on God and his timing regardless if we agree with the process or not. We can resist, complain, murmur, have a temper tantrum and shut the world out, it doesn’t make a difference when God is at work in your life. We long to hear God and feel his presence but when this is not taking place quickly we drift further and further from Him. This very thing makes us impatient and causes us to abandon the very thing God has us waiting on. We have made ourselves believe that our answers are better than Gods. What a way to think when God knows the end of a thing than its beginning. “I make know the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say my purpose will stand and I will do all that I please.” (Isaiah 46:10 NIV). So why are we at war in the waiting room? Why do we constantly go back and forth with God on his plan and timing for our lives? He will prevail every time. “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” (Proverbs 19:21 NIV). Thank God that God knows us individually inside and out. He knows it’s hard for us to abandon control, and to trust fully in Him. But God always have a plan even in our stubbornness. I believe learning to turn over our will for his will, will be the greatest challenge that we will ever face. Learning how to let go and let God should be one of the first things we relinquish entering into the waiting room. No one said it would be easy but it can be done through trusting God and believing in the promises that He has spoken for our lives. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” (Jeremiah29:11 NIV). If we just trust Him there is so much He wants us to see and learn while waiting on Him. This maybe the very reason why we are still in the waiting room and so frequently. Let us learn what we need to learn while waiting. Let us not get caught up in the web on how quickly He answers us or somebody else. Let us not ignore when God is working in our lives even in the quiet and non-movement times. Let us not try to hurry along the process or we may miss what God is trying to do and say. “Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” (Psalm 46:10). Know that it won’t be a quick but learn how to wait well by following God’s word, remembering his promise and surrendering your will over. By doing these things it will draw you further away from your problem and closer to God and what he wants for your life. Everything is based on a choice to do something. Chose to wait well on God no matter what the cost or how long it takes. The surprising thing is after God finishes working on us, taking out somethings and putting in somethings we will realize it was worth the wait regardless if we get what we were waiting for or not. Let’s not be afraid to wait because the reward in the end is worth waiting for.
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Lord, Why Am I Still in the Waiting Room?—Understanding the Importance of How and Why to Wait Well presents a valuable approach to life that cuts against the grain of most modern lives. Ta-Tanisha Thames, a certified breakthrough life coach, suggests that waiting both patiently and purposefully, despite desires for quick fixes and instant resolutions, is crucial for living meaningfully. In fact, Lord, Why Am I Still in the Waiting Room? suggests that times of waiting are part of God’s way of leading individuals to understand their circumstances, to hear their callings, and to embrace the potential that Jesus Christ has in store for them. Using the image of the waiting room, Lord, Why Am I Still in the Waiting Room? approaches the times of waiting one faces in life in seven chapters that address various topics: “How did I get to the waiting room?”; “How long is the wait time?”; “What should I do in the waiting room?”; “Misconceptions about the waiting room”; “Who else is in the waiting room?”; “Beware of distractions in the waiting room”; and, finally, “The reward on waiting well.” Sometimes life may present you with pauses, moments between, or gaps in progress. The lure is not to see these times as impediments to your movement, your advancement. The gift that Lord, Why Am I Still in the Waiting Room? offers is to invite you to embrace waiting as a blessing from God, given as a way to learn how to wait well.
About the Author
Ta-Tanisha Thames is an anointed woman of God, living by faith and teaching others this way of following Christ. A certified breakthrough life coach, she works with women and men from all places, helping them to gain confidence by making creative and liberating transitions in their personal and professional lives.