By Gavin Boyle
Kirk Cameron explained how waiting on the Lord is a crucial part of the Christian walk as it helps grow our faith and build our trust in God.
“I want to talk with you about what it means to wait on the Lord. Some people hate the phrase because waiting is just excruciating; it just takes too long. [But] waiting on the Lord is not sitting around doing nothing. Waiting for God is actively believing that God is keeping His promises in His perfect time and then you acting in confidence,” Cameron explained. “Waiting on God is not at all like the meaningless, boring waiting that you do at a dentist’s office.”
“Waiting on God is not passive; it’s active. Waiting on God is not an internal torment that results in paralysis and frustration. It’s an internal rest that results in courageous action…” he added. “You and I are called to wait because God has dropped us right in the middle between the already and the not yet of the story. God is faithful, and He is going to finish the work that He began in us.”
The Bible reveals the reward for faithful waiting on the Lord time and time again. In the story of Abraham, for example, God blesses Abraham with the son that he was promised even though he and his wife Sarah were old and past the childbearing age.
“Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what He had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him,” reads Genesis 21:1-2.
Abraham was blessed because he waited on God’s time and allowed Him to work in his life even when things seemed impossible by worldly standards. The power of doing the same remains true today as Christians are still called to trust in God’s timing and wait on Him to execute His plans.
Brittany Lynn Lutz, wife of TWILIGHT star Kellan Lutz, encouraged her fans to remain faithful to God in times of waiting.
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“Waiting for your dreams and desires to turn to reality can be uncomfortable, annoying, frustrating, and downright painful,” she wrote on Instagram. “But if you wait well- if you stay faithful and don’t turn bitter- that is what enlarges your capacity to enjoy that desire when you get it.”
“It’s who you become in the waiting that makes you able to carry the weight of the blessing when you get it. Waiting isn’t easy,” she continued. “Especially when you’re choosing to wait on God rather than taking it into your own hands.”
Though waiting is difficult, it is an extremely important practice of the Christian faith as it places full trust in the Lord, allowing Him to work on His time, rather than trying to force Him into our own plans.
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