What Do You Do With Your Wait is another Bible study by Lifeway’s Threads. In our past and partially in our present, we are learning to trust God regarding finances, jobs, housing, family issues, contacts, ministry opportunities, timing, and general leading throughout life. I am sure that you too can track ways that God is teaching you to trust and wait on His provision. Life often involves a series of waits, whereby we must learn patience to acquire the desired result. I recently read through this small-group study booklet on the subject of life’s waits. Through this study, the author develops the premise that God often takes us through periods of waiting for His master purifying purposes. You see, the Gospel is far more than just a prayer we pray. The Gospel is far more than just fire insurance and a home in heaven. The Gospel gives us freedom, a joyful life, an abundant life in Christ now! While faith in Christ (the Gospel of salvation) brings us eternal life in heaven, it enters us into a lifelong journey for God’s full redemptive purposes. God is working with you and me to develop us into the restored image of God, the very image of Jesus. Therefore, everything in the believer’s life occurs for our sovereign Lord’s redemptive purposes. Romans 8:28 and the surrounding context speak to this sanctifying purpose. Hebrews 12:5-11 also speak to this sanctifying purpose of God in the lives of the redeemed. When we come to the subject of waiting in life, we must view these periods through the lens of God’s sanctifying redemptive purposes. The study booklet I read pointed to the faith-exemplified waiting examples of Joseph, David, and even Jesus. Joseph endured a lengthy process of waiting for that which he did not know. As he was faithful to God and rested in His purposes, he became the redeemer of all Egypt and his own family (the very family that would birth the nation of Israel)! David, likewise endured much waiting. He was promised a kingdom. God called him to this crucial purpose. David knew his calling and yet he patiently waited for God’s timing in making this calling a reality. In fact, he waited for 17 years before God promoted him to king of Israel. David learned what it meant to find a refuge in God throughout life’s waiting periods! Even Jesus endured a 30 year wait for the mission to which He was born. Jesus, being God and man, willingly subjected Himself to the Father’s timetable and means of fulfilling His purpose. Satan even gave Jesus an opportunity to short-circuit this wait, but Jesus faithfully waited on the Father’s timing in the Father’s way. Pick up a copy of this study for yourself and delve into a deeper study of embracing life’s waiting periods!

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