Whether you're waiting for a husband, a new career move, a promotion, or a healing, God's timing is rarely—if ever—the same as ours.
The Bible says, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”—Isaiah 55:8–9 (NKJV)
He sees what we can't see. He knows what we don't know. His ways and thoughts are higher.
Waiting on God is talked about over and over in the Bible. It's part of walking with Him.
But, waiting is never wasted. There’s an invitation to wait with God and grow in intimacy with Him during the waiting. You may regret rushing and being miserable, but you won’t regret growing closer to Jesus and maturing in your faith and relationship with Him.
It can be difficult in the midst of waiting to see what God is doing. Often, we don’t see it until later. But God is always working while you wait—both in you and in your circumstances.
Joseph had to wait until he was 30 to rule in Egypt. He didn’t do anything wrong; it was simply God’s timing.—Genesis 41:46 (NKJV)
Sometimes when God makes us wait, we’re tempted to think we did something wrong or that we’re being punished. But Joseph wasn’t being punished. God always had an appointed time for him to be lifted up. God has an appointed time for the milestones in your life, too.
The Bible says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”—Proverbs 3:5–6 (NKJV)
We don’t always understand what He’s doing, but He tells us to trust Him with all our heart. He promises that His plans for us are good.
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the Lord, “thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”—Jeremiah 29:11 (NKJV)
God’s plans for you are good. Trust that—even when you don’t understand.
There have been many times I didn’t understand what God was doing until later. But now I can look back at His faithfulness, even in moments when I don’t know what’s next.
The Bible says, “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.”—Psalm 84:11 (NKJV)
So trust that if He hasn’t given it to you yet, it’s for a good reason. Just know this: He is not withholding from you. He is for you. He is not against you.
