“I am confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.”
Psalm 27:13-14
“A place calls to me from a long way off… I don’t know why – but HE does. When the time is right HE will make it clear and open the way. Until then I will walk with Him and wait.” I had typed those words into my Facebook status. I was feeling a bit frustrated by the lack of progress being made to actually get to this particular distant land and I needed to reassure myself that in God’s good timing it would happen, I just need to wait. I don’t really know why there is such strong pull to this place, there are a number of reasons I can think of – a dear friend that I desire greatly to share a hug and a cuppa with, while chatting about life and God. Maybe it’s the bits of a piece of fiction running about in my head or the distant ties to family history or the anniversary holiday that seems fitting for 30 years. Plenty of reasons, why I think I need to go, want to go and in the midst of all that there’s a little tug on my heart suggesting that there is something else calling me, something that is part of a divine plan that I can’t see yet.
Do you have a place calling to you from a long way off? As followers of Jesus many of us long for that day when we will see Him and be in the land of the kingdom, but for this too we must wait. This week’s passage closes one of David’s songs of faith and confidence in his God. David longs for nothing more than to “dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of his life” (Psalm 27:4) yet he knows that there is still trouble to come, but he will continue to trust and ultimately he affirms his confidence in God’s goodness and will wait for what the Lord has for him. Psalm 33 closes with a similar affirmation: “We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name” (Psalm 33:21). Even Paul encourages his Roman readers with similar words when he tells them: “Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently” (Romans 8:24-25).
No matter what you are waiting for, what is calling to you from a far off place, no matter how impossible a situation may seem, the same God that David trusted and Paul trusted and Moses trusted and Abraham trusted and Esther trusted and Mary trusted – is worthy of our trust as well and nothing is impossible for Him.
His timing is not our timing, so this week let’s just trust that He has an incredible plan for each of us – a plan that He will reveal step by step. Let’s settle into the walk, matching His pace and let us wait patiently for all He is going to do with us today where we are and one day in that distant land.
A Prayer
Father – thank you for leaving us with stories of others who have trusted in Your plan even when they didn’t know what was coming next or wanted things in their timing. Help us this week and everyday for that matter, to trust Your plan, to walk with you daily doing the things You have for us each day as we wait for those bigger things that are calling to our hearts, in that we can find joy and hope for the journey. In the name of Jesus, who is leading us to that distant land, we pray – Amen.
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