~ Waiting For God or Not

This article is inspired from the title of the play “Waiting For Godot”. That is about the sum connection between the two but I think that the title becomes a little more understandable given this qualifier.
Truth is that given a certain amount of literary licence, the subject of waiing is a major one for many of us. Unfortunately for some they make up their own minds about what God has intended for them and miss the God shot but just enough to disappoint.
We are not conditioned to be comfortable with uncertainty, one of the definitions that can be used for faith is “belief within uncertainty”. It was Paul of Tarsus who penned the words, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen”. It is a great verse about faith but it does little to alleviate the uncertainty and being out of control that many of us experience.
I call this state “The Great Adventure”, knowing that there is “Something” coming usually gives me a lift spiritually. Usually I am quite comfortable in leaving the details to Father to reveal in His own good time because Jesus assured us that Father wills only to bring us “good” things.
As I said “usually” I am happy to leave it to God, but over the last few weeks while we have had the options of maybe heading clear across the country or up north and out of state We have been sorely exercised with issues related to transport and accommodation. It is not often we both get caught up in these questions, but there you go we are now.
This is not an issue of lack of trust. These are practical things like the vehicle that best fits our, unknown to us, destination. A vehicle for the back of beyond would not be suitable for the suburbs, and a suburb suitable vehicle would probably not be able to transport our stuff, what little we have left by then.
Trust and obey is a great hymn. It is an even better way to live as long as we can keep our hands, or at least our minds under control. We need to maintain in our mind and heart that “We know whom we have believed” and that “He is able to bring things to completion”. This is how we must remain, in God waiting for Him to reveal to us what is His good will for us, and staying prepared to use our intelligence for His glory WHEN He reveals what His plan is.
I do not wish to make this sound trite or even easy. We are all prone to wanting to be in control of our own lives. When they are only ever at their best when we are dead centre in Fathers will for us. Often we need to dig in to the disciplines of the spirit to keep us close to Father, to trust His wisdom rather than try to work it out in our own wisdom
Our society tends be a series of “Go go go”. We are not accustomed to being asked to wait, yet that is precisely what God has asked his people to do right through the Bible: King Saul was even disendorsed as king because he got impatient and did not wait for Samuel to come and make the sacrifice to God. If God takes impatience that seriously then it is a salutary lesson to us in waiting on God.