The Waiting Game

At Bellwood, we are seeking to hire an Associate Pastor of Youth and Children. We have a diverse group of folks who are serving on the Search Committee. We had been meeting every other week to do a lot of preparatory work, but now we are in the period of waiting to see who may respond to our new position. I sent the Committee this email today to hopefully encourage them a bit.

Since we seem to not really have a need to meet until we have some prospects, I thought I would touch base with all of you. I hope that we are faithfully praying for the new Associate Pastor of Youth and Children and that we are praying for Bellwood. I really feel good about the work we have done so far. There is evidence of that (job description, church profile, 20 Pastoral tasks). These are the things we can see, but we might be tempted to get discouraged because now we are in a mode of simply waiting – and not necessarily seeing results.Yesterday, while reading in the Chronological Bible, this jumped out at me:  Psalm 5:3 “Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly”. Isn’t that good? We bring our request…and we wait with expectation. We are not just hopelessly waiting or blindly waiting. We wait with anticipation that God will answer and provide at the perfect time.Hang on to this! Don’t get discouraged. Don’t lose hope. Something good is already happening.

Waiting is hard, but this Psalm encourages us to wait with expectation - meaning that God does hear. He is not deaf or turned away. We may have to wait awhile - a very long while in some cases- but we wait knowing that some day, some way God will answer. Be encouraged.