If you’re anything like me, when a decision is needed, you want to hurry it along. You want the question or the problem resolved. Sometimes, however, God wants us to wait. Maybe such waiting teaches us to cling to Him? This quote from the daily devotional I’ve been using, Streams in the Desert vol. 1, expresses it well.
“‘In fierce storms,’ said an old seaman, ‘we must do one thing; there is only one way: we must put the ship in a certain position and keep her there.’
This, Christian, is what you must do. Sometimes like Paul, you can see neither sun nor stars, and no small tempest lies on you; and then you can do but one thing; there is only one way.
Reason cannot help you; past experiences give you no light. Even prayer fetches no consolation. Only a single course is left. You must put your soul in one position and keep it there.
You must stay upon the Lord; and come what may — winds, waves, cross-seas, thunder, lightning, frowning rocks, roaring breakers– no matter what, you must lash yourself to the helm, and hold fast your confidence, in God’s faithfulness, His covenant engagement, His everlasting love in Christ Jesus.”
Richard Fuller
For more about waiting see these posts:
Lutheran Ladies Connection 
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