Advent: Waiting on Him

Have you heard of delayed gratification?

It isn’t a concept that we are very familiar with in the United States today. Everything happens instantly. Now. When I want it.

Delayed gratification, on the other hand, requires wait time. Saving up, dreaming about, and/or planning for something big, and special, and important. It is the joyous moment when you finally, finally achieve or receive whatever that big, special, important thing is. Maybe it’s a beautiful wedding day that was postponed due to the craziness of the last year and a half, or an honorable graduation day after years of hard work, or a baby you have dreamed about and prayed for. Whatever it is, the gratification is all the greater after the wait time.

As you join me through these weeks of advent, we will encounter people whose lives were defined by waiting on the Lord. His timeline is not ours, and from our human perspective can often frustrate us and leave us doubting. I want you to be encouraged by these stories of His faithfulness. He is at work in your waiting.

November 28: Seeing Leah

December 5: Preparing Moses

December 12: Protecting Ruth

December 19: Delivering Jesus