“For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end- it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay” Habakkuk 2:3

I don’t know if I have ever felt so anxious in the waiting as I do now, waiting for our son to arrive. Every hour feels like a day and each day a week. I just want to hold him in my arms, snuggle him, take him to the arboretum, teach him, dress him up, and learn about the man God created. Also, I’d love to have him out of my abdomen! Every braxton hicks, every pain, every movement I wonder, is it time yet? I have absolutely no control over when our sweet son comes. I also have no idea what to expect about how long labor will last or how difficult it will be. Honestly, I have never felt so out of control, but the reality is that we never really do have control we just “think” we do. There is a song that by John Waller called, “While I am waiting” and these lyrics keep going through my head over and over:

I will move ahead bold and confident

Taking every step in obedience

While I’m waiting I will serve You

While I’m waiting I will worship

While I’m waiting I will not faint

I’ll be running the race even while I wait

I’m waiting, I’m waiting on You Lord

And I am peaceful, I’m waiting on You Lord

Though it’s not easy no, but faithfully I will wait

Yes, I will wait

Our Lord is not quick as the world measures time. We seem to do/get everything instantaneously, creating an impatient culture. Jesus fasted and prayed in the desert for 40 days. He was silent to Israel for 400 years. Yet he created the world in 7 days… 🙂 We never know his timing but we do KNOW it is HIS and it is PERFECT.

“The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord” Lamentations3:25-26

“But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousands years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient towards you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance” 2 Peter 3:8-9

The temptation is to fill the waiting with other things and “feel busy,” but the Lord is sanctifying me in patience and control. Though my every moment my prayer is “can it be time yet?!?!” 🙂 May we always remember we never have control over what day each brings but may we be faithful to trust and run the race with perseverance.

May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy.   – Colossians 2:11