When Will Your Change Come?

Are you waiting to find a solution to a problem you’re facing, or, for the first signs of fulfillment to a promise GOD has made you? You’re not the first person to struggle with the idea of waiting, and you won’t be the last. When you get what you’re waiting for, you’ll begin waiting for something else. If there’s one word that offers definition of the life one who is following God, it’s "waiting".

GOD said to the prophet Habakkuk, "The revelation awaits an appointed time…and will not prove false. Though it lingers, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay." Why did God say that? He was answering Habakkuk's question, "How long, O LORD, must I call for help, but You do not listen?"

Have you ever asked that question? Look at the patriarch Job. Covered in boils and totally bankrupt, he says, "If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my change comes."

Waiting for things to change is not easy. Waiting on an answer to prayer isn’t either.  What should you do while you’re waiting? Pour yourself into the job at hand—seeking GOD! If it is not Him you seek, you will shortchange your own future. James, writes, "Be patient…see how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm…" --James 5:7-8

What GOD has in store for us all is worth any price that is to be paid, and the time spent hoping for His answer to arrive. It is worth any season of waiting you must go through. Ask His Son, Who paid the ultimate fee for us and waited 33 years to pay it.

Why is waiting such a difficult task?