Waiting is hard for me. If I’m praying for something and don’t see it happening, my instinct is to jump in and start making moves. I want to push things along, fix it, figure it out. But I’m learning that waiting and inaction aren’t the same thing.
Inaction is when I know what I should do but choose not to do it – like James 4:17 says, “If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.” That’s not the same as waiting.
Waiting is a purposeful pause. It’s choosing to hold back, not out of laziness, but out of faith – because I trust that God’s timing is better than mine. Like it says in Psalm 27:14, “Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.”
So if you’re in a season of waiting, maybe it’s not a lack of action – maybe it’s exactly what God has called you to do right now.