Willing to Wait

We will always wait for things that are important to us. We'll stay by our phone waiting for a call about a job opportunity or a report from a doctor's office. We'll wait in line for groceries or a roller-coaster ride. We are willing to wait for the excitement-filled days and weeks before our wedding & the nine long months for a baby to arrive. The value we place on something is in direct proportion to the amount of time we're willing to wait for it.

If we value hearing from God and if we are equally as certain that we will hear His voice, we will be determined to wait patiently for God to speak. There is a direct correlation between your level of anticipation to hear from God and your willingness to wait.

"If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this [time of] waiting on the Lord. Sometimes He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith & peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it." -Corrie Ten Boom

From "Discerning the Voice of God"
by Priscilla Shirer

My sweet friend Caitlin posted this excerpt (and a bit more) on her blog, but these few paragraphs have really caught my attention... Just thought I'd share it, too.