A quiet one for a Saturday.

We have been sitting with patience all week. The command to wait. The second wait. The answer that grew underneath. The walk that does not fall. The garment you put on each morning.

One more verse to carry you into the weekend. One of the strangest and most comforting lines in the prophets.

“For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.” - Habakkuk 2:3

Read it once more.

Though it linger, wait for it.
It will certainly come.
It will not delay.

Three sentences that sit uncomfortably together. Because to our ears, lingering and not delaying sound like opposites. If something is lingering, is it not by definition delayed? If it is not delayed, how can it also be slow?

Habakkuk is doing something subtle here.

He is saying: from where you are sitting, in the middle of your waiting, this thing WILL feel slow. It will linger. You will begin to think it has forgotten you. That is normal. That is the experience of waiting on God.

But from where God is sitting, it is not slow at all. It has an appointed time. It is already on its way. It will arrive exactly when it was always going to arrive. And when it does arrive, you will look back and see that it did not actually delay. It came on its own schedule, which was the right schedule, even though it was not yours.

The gap between our perception of the wait and the truth of it is where faith does its quiet work.

The answer you are waiting for has an appointed time. You do not know that time. You will not be given that time. But it has one. Which means today, the day it feels most lost, it is still on its way.

Though it linger, wait for it. It is not lost. It is only on its own schedule.

YOUR ONE THING FOR TODAY

Pick the one thing you have been waiting on God for that feels most like a lingering. Today, instead of trying to speed it up or let go of it, just say: It has an appointed time. I am not God. I trust the timing. Say it slowly. Mean it.

A PRAYER FOR TODAY

Father, help me rest in the fact that the thing I am waiting for has a time, and the time is not mine to set. Teach me to trust the timing I cannot see. Thank you that nothing you are doing in my life is late, even when it feels late. Hold me in the slow yes today. Amen.

If a particular waiting season is the one you keep coming back to, hit reply and tell me what it is. I will pray with you.

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