If I’m going to wait on God, I will wait well

The key lesson I've learned in my waiting season. Read about how I've learned to wait on God.

FAITHTRINITY O MCINTOSH

8/20/20242 min read

It took me 8 months to realize God had me in a waiting season and its purpose. Going through this season was pretty easy at first, but when time started being against me regarding what I was praying for this season became pretty challenging. My mental health and relationships began going downhill when I realized that I was running out of time for what I was praying to God for. I began to doubt that God would even answer this prayer. I would beg God to just send me what I so desperately needed. Asking Him why am I always the last one to be blessed. Why am I always overlooked? I felt rejected and hurt. I constantly felt tears in my eyes and heaviness in my heart because of this pain, distancing myself from my family and friends in the process. However, I never distanced myself from God. Even in my pain, I could never leave God, I couldn't even fathom going a day without speaking to Him.

I didn't realize what God wanted from me in this waiting season these 8 months. He wanted me to trust Him. It’s as simple as that. It wasn't a huge lesson or something grand, it was something so basic that it got overlooked. My lesson was to trust Him in my waiting season. The scripture that opened my eyes is James 1:3-4:

“Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

My faith in what I was requesting from God was being tried in my waiting season. The great thing about this "trying" is that my patience was being worked on and it will be a good result after its completion. So that the next time I have to wait on God it will be easier and my response will not be to complain and feel negative but to rejoice and praise. My waiting season and its lessons have made me more spiritually mature for the new season I’m entering and when I meet my next waiting season.

While I’m being tested and tried I will trust Him. When my back is against the wall I will trust Him. When the burden gets too heavy I will trust Him. God wanted me to trust Him while I waited. From here on now…

If I’m going to wait on God, I will wait well.