Since New Year, this demanding lunatic faithful follower of Christ, keeps asking God for direction about a very specific area. I’ve been pleading, “God, I really need your direction which way to turn, please help!”
You see, I don’t want to go this way or that way because I sense the “bigness” of this decision. I believe that God answers every prayer, immediately, with a, “Yes”, “No”, or “Wait”. It’s true that “Wait-not yet” is an answered prayer. It may not be my most preferred answer, but it is an answered prayer.
As I’ve continued to petition God on which direction to go, through weeks of silence, God deposited these two words into my heart, HOLDING PATTERN.
I’ve learned that when the message in short, crisp and clear – it’s God. And, when God speaks, I start looking and studying and asking. In my looking, I found that every person I talked to was in some form of a holding pattern. This is one of the many reasons why being in a community is so vitally important.
One friend struggling in her marriage – God whispered, “Holding Pattern.”
One friend jobless – God whispered, “Holding Pattern.”
One friend waiting for a potential spouse – God whispered, “Holding Pattern.”
One friend in a weight plateau – God whispered, “Holding Pattern.”
One friend undecided about taking a huge ministry position – God whispered, “Holding Pattern.”
One friend navigating a friendship hurt – God whispered, “Holding Pattern.”
My church waiting for a new senior ministry leader – God whispered, “Holding Pattern.”
I keep asking and God keeps saying, “Wait, not yet.”
It’s taken me to the point of writing this post to realize that God’s not revealed the direction that He wants me to go because He doesn’t know. He’s God and does know. But there’s much, much more at stake.
More tomorrow…
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