Actively Waiting

I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord ; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord ! — Psalms 27:13‭-‬14 

Waiting can be difficult for most of us. It feels like we’re not in control and we grow impatient. To avoid this, we kill time by distracting ourselves for the sake of just getting by the waiting period. 

Nowadays, we don’t want to wait. It only delays our plans. We tend to rush things because we’re somehow taught and raised to do calculated outcomes. It replaces the interaction and the values. We don’t want the travel, we just want to get to the destination already. 

But waiting in God is actually an entirely different thing. Waiting is courageous and it makes us grow. When we wait with our hearts full of thankfulness, we experience joy and strength to persevere. 

Waiting builds our trust unto the Lord. It gets us deeper into our faith in Him.Waiting also imparts hope in us that despite circumstances and storms in life, we still stand. Waiting can be hard but waiting is actually beautiful. It is a time to seek God and His will in our lives.

“​Waiting is not a delay of the thing we have in our mind’s eye. It is about being present in the now, and placing a longing hope in God. It is the space in which we root ourselves in truth and learn to want God more than our own desires.” — Logan Wolfram

but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. — Isaiah 40:31

Reference: Curious Faith

Fight Of Faith

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. — 1 Timothy 6:12

Life is more of a spiritual battle and not just of the physical and emotional. It’s more of the internal aspects of our lives that we must focus on because that’s where the real battle comes in. That’s the war we must win.

Jesus Christ has already won the fight for us on the cross, and all we have to do is to maintain the faith on the victory he has won for us. It takes faith to overcome the challenges in life. Faith is believing that something we don’t see is going to happen. Faith is when everything around us have fallen while we still have hope in Christ. Fighting the good fight of faith is to keep believing in God on all circumstances.

Most of the time, God doesn’t change the situation we are in even though they are tough. He allows us to experience those trials so we may continue to have hope in Him. Our faith is put to test when we are under those times. That also means that keeping our faith needs supplements, and it’s on feeding on His Word, meditating on it day and night so that we may be refreshed and be hungry and thirsty for the Word.

God called us to glorify Him in all circumstances. We agree with His promises and we agree with His will. disagreeing with Him is not living by faith and thus will lead us to a path where we get lost and fight the wrong battles. If we agree on God’s will for us, we walk the right path and fight the good fight of faith. It’s the real battle and it’s the war we must win.

Reference: The Power Of Being Thankful