Waiting On God Hits Top 100!

"Waiting On God" (just $.99) just made the top 100 books on Kindle for the "Christian Living" category. I could not be more excited that the message within this ebook is reaching out to so many! If you haven't checked it out, here's a sneak peek! (Plus the ebook contains the FIRST CHAPTERS FREE of my other two books, "Be Still" and "Beginning at the End.")

At any given point in time, you’ll find yourself waiting on “something.” You might be waiting on something very small, or you could be waiting on something that will change the course of your life. Either way, the “waiting place” is the hardest place. Dr. Seuss described our feelings about the “waiting place” best:

You can get so confused

that you’ll start in to race

down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace

and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,

headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.

The Waiting Place . . .

(Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!)

But, what we find is that Dr. Seuss had it wrong. And so do we. We perceive our “waiting” place to be a place where time is wasted . . . useless. We assume that nothing is happening, and we question whether God’s Word is true when it says that He “never slumbers or sleeps.” (Psalm 121:4) It appears that in our own lives, as our lives spiral recklessly out of control, He’s fallen asleep at the wheel. Waiting places tempt us to believe that either God isn’t there or He simply doesn’t care.

We find ourselves easily consumed with despair and hopelessness in our waiting places. Uncertainty and lack of control can get the best of us. We tend to view the “waiting place” as Dr. Seuss did . . . as a “confusing, fearful, and useless place.” But it is not . . . unless we’re not walking with God. If we’re trusting in God, we can be certain that there is no such thing as Him being “almost” sovereign. If we say we have “faith,” then we must live like we do. And the “waiting place” is precisely the “place” God uses to examine our faith and see if it is genuine. The “waiting place” is where He purifies us, allowing the impurities of our spirit to come to the surface. The “waiting place” is part of the process. And we can trust that God will not allow us to remain in the “waiting place” one moment longer than it takes to accomplish His purposes for them. He wouldn’t have you waiting if there weren’t something to wait for. He wouldn’t refine you if He didn’t know He’d find gold. But it’s when He’s holding us to the fire, when the pain and suffering is more than we can bear, our heart cries out with questions that beg answers.

 It’s in our most desperate, darkest hour that we cry out countless questions to God:

“Why are you allowing this?”

“What is the purpose in this?”

“Are you there?”

“Do you care?”

But, you see, for all the questions we have for God, He has questions for us too . . . and as our heart pours out tears to heaven, the answers from God sometimes come in the form of a question . . . “Where is your faith?”  (Luke 8:28)