Time ticks on, yet the
metaphorical doors leading to answered prayers remain closed, and the hallway
between opportunities stretches as far as the eye can see. What else can be
done but wait, hope and pray? How can God be actively at work within a place of
stillness?
When I speak at schools
and other venues, I often tell people my job is to be rejected. I give thousands
of hours to a pixelated stack of white pages on an illuminated computer screen.
I pour my heart and soul into each sentence, yet I spend as much time waiting
for a YES from publishers and accepting countless NOs as I do composing a
novel. I’m on a thousand-hour coffee date with possibilities that may or may not
become my reality.
Life is a hallway of
locked doors. No matter how much someone knocks, unless it is God’s will, the panels
will stay sealed and act as protective barriers between the sovereign plan and
one’s desires. Some doors never open; those that might have been concealed from
sight or kept from consideration unlock at unpredictable moments.
Opportunities come in
fleeting gasps, subtle whispers and screeches of celebration. They’re delivered
in blinks and extensive spans. They come when we ache for them, when we least
expect them.
Rejection is a large
portion of my job, but God-glorified waiting is a lifestyle I have accepted, applied.
God-glorified waiting is an attitude of surrender, a faith in His promise to
open doors—it is a life of knocking and being content in whichever threshold
becomes available.
Waiting
is not a passive verb.
God
is not bound by time.
“He has made everything
beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one
can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11
Our lives are caged into
a block of linear years. We exist in a timeline, but God surpasses chronology.
He does not abide by the earthy rules that hold our bodies captive. He works
beyond seconds, hours and days. If we have asked Him to be Lord of our lives,
we have been adopted into His master plan where nothing can happen too early or
too late.
The timelessness of God is
a truth we can cling to as we wait for His doors to unlock.
God
is not bound by dreams.
“You need to persevere so
that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.”
Hebrews 10:36
God cares for the desires
of our hearts. He does not toy with us, give dreams and not fulfill His
promises. If we are divinely called to a destination, He will pave the path.
Our dreams cannot build parameters
around God’s power. He has the ability to change our hearts, replace desires
with burning passions. He can do immeasurably more with us when we walk the
hallway of life, knock and ask for His guidance.
God
is not bound by choices.
“For He rescued us from
the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” Colossians 1:13-14
Salvation through Jesus
Christ is the ultimate open door—it makes available to us God’s perfect plan. Grace
declares victory over the choices we make, and God’s will prevails.
Waiting is a state of
motion where God can reveal His truth and mold our hearts. We must be sure to
recognize His voice in the perceived stillness, listen to Him above all else
and dwell within the comfort of communication with Him.
Dreams can be fulfilled
while walking down a hallway.
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