“There’s beauty and freedom in the not yet!!!!” is what I keep exclaiming to myself. I believe the waiting season is the most challenging season I’ve ever had to experience.
I can only imagine what farmers go through every season. Toiling and planting, and then waiting. And they enjoy every bit of it. This is why I remind myself, chanting loudly in my head, there is beauty and freedom in the not yet.
The Waiting Season
Honestly, the waiting season tends to look different for everybody. Here are a few things you may be waiting on:
- Jesus return.
- A promotion at work.
- “The One” to come along.
- Your circumstances to change.
- The day your child gets over the rebellious phase.
- Your friend to be there like they once were.
- The co-parenting relationship becomes less stressful.
- The business you’ve worked tirelessly on to take off.
Things can be painful if you let them for whatever you are waiting on.
The World’s View On Waiting
Yes, I am going to talk about the world’s view because we can’t turn a blind eye to the external cues and influences that seep into how we experience this season in our life. The world considers waiting passive, playing small, giving up, and being lazy. The list could honestly go on.
And the truth is, I believed every lie, which fed into busyness, my “overproductive productiveness,” and the anxiety that I was not doing enough. Now, don’t get me wrong, there is a season for action, and some people say they are waiting when they are actually in fear.
God’s View
That is not the case here. The waiting season is all about working in place. It’s about building, turning the soil, preparing, and nurturing, which was what God meant for waiting to be.
Contrary to the world, waiting for God is about building up your inner man, not the outer circumstance. It’s about your heart and character, not your presentation.
God views waiting as wise, operating in good judgment, and a sign of strength in you. Through His perception, you will begin to see the beauty of the waiting season.
I have been in a waiting season for a very long time. Five years to be exact!
I have experienced all the phases that I know that you know about it. Can I be honest with you?
I was sitting in my bed crying about why nothing was working for me. Everyone is getting blessed, and I constantly have to fight to get ahead. Why can’t I have my happily ever after? When will this single mom journey get easier? You said you are with me, so why do I still feel lonely? Why does it seem like I never have enough money to do the things I want to do? I do not want to work for another employer. I need this business to work out!
In all that muddled thinking, I was leading myself straight into a dysfunctional waiting season—a waiting season, similar to the Israelites, straight into the wilderness. Instead of seeing the opportunities of my questioning to understand better who God is, His ways, and what He wanted to do in the waiting season. When it could have taken 1, I realized what God wanted me to do five years later. He told me to discipline myself and begin to tear down the habits that kept me in cycles for years, replacing those with new ones.
And I laughed. Not because I’m rude, but because God spoke this five years ago.
Our Part In The Matter
Sometimes, it’s not God that holds us in a waiting season; it’s our stubbornness to seek him early and act obediently. When we don’t, we prolong seasons, leave ourselves with no options, living a life of desperation. We need to snap out of this life now.
And if you are anything like me, you are still in your waiting season. You are probably at the point where you are ready to turn and shift your season around for the better. Honestly, waiting seasons are never easy, but they don’t have to be complicated either. I want to share with you a group of scriptures that have been helping me to wait the way God defined. Whether you are in a season or not, you would want to bookmark these verses for when it comes back around.
7 Scriptures To Help You In Your Waiting Season
But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently. Romans 8:25 NLT
But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31 NLTWait patiently for the Lord. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the Lord. Psalm 27:14 NLT
Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised. Hebrew 10:36 NLT
So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up. Galatians 6:9 NLT
We prove ourselves by our purity, our understanding, our patience, our kindness, by the Holy Spirit within us, and by our sincere love. 2 Corinthians 6:6 NLT
So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing. James 1:4 NLT
All in all,
I hope my post and the scriptures have made you look at waiting in another light. Waiting is not bad, as the world likes to communicate, but it is wise. You’ve been through too much to keep going at life haphazard. Let’s use the book of life instructions as our guide.
I wrote a post a while back out what it means to wait with confidence in the way Romans 8:25 expresses. Check it out here.
If you need additional support in your waiting season, I encourage you to reach out for a Confidence Chat.
And if you want to stay connected with resources for confidence-building during your waiting season. Join the new Women Seeking Confidence Facebook Group here.
