Who is waiting for whom? ...

Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014. I had the feeling recently, that I am waiting for the Lord. I am waiting for him to be active in my life. I am waiting for him to guide me. I am waiting for his promises to become real, to show that what I heard as his words will become a reality …

Waiting for him …

So I had the impression that I have been waiting for him. I have been waiting that he might start to fulfill his promises.

But I had to realize that it might have been the other way around already for quite a while. Not I have been waiting for the Lord, but the Lord has been waiting for me! I wanted him to do something, and he said: yes, I will. Go the following steps. He started to do, what I had asked im to do. But he wanted me to be a part of it, and that needed me to go some particular steps. So he was waiting for ME!

To be more concrete: the particular thing he was waiting for was my prayer. I had asked him to be more active in my life and with my words and activities. And he told me: I will. Just come to me and talk to me and listen to me, day by day. But I did not do it. I came only once a week. Sometimes I did not come for weeks. How could I expect him to use me, without me listening to him?

Waiting for us …

God is waiting for us. He is waiting for us to turn to him. He is waiting for us to take him serious. He is waiting for us to trust him. That is what he wants us to do - and then he can and will be active in our life!

Humans have often tried to turn the responsibility around. We treat God as if he would be responsible to us for his actions. But this is not true. He is not. But WE are responsible to him for what we did and what we did not do with our time and our possibilities. At some point in the future we will realize how much God has done for us - and how strongly he tried to lead us towards justice, truth, love and peace.

So what is God waiting for when it comes to you personally? Is he waiting for you to stop some particular behaviour? Is he waiting for you to turn to him, to talk to him? Is he waiting for you to trust him, to come to faith? Or perhaps he wants to send you and wants to use you, he wants to give you gifts and skills and blessing into your life - if you could just start to live with him, start to look towards him and open your hands … (Roland Potthast) ... more texts