Still Waiting

weary and emotionally spent!  Then, you see the time!  “Oh No!”  Your alarm didn’t go off; so, you are off to a late start.  You are running around like a crazy person trying to get everyone ready.  The coffee maker is not working – NOOOOO!!!!  Now, the children are messing around, instead of getting ready.  One of them has just spilled, what seems to be, a whole gallon of milk all over everything and everyone.  How could there have possibly been that much milk in that cup?  Everyone now has to change clothes plus the milk has to get cleaned up!  This is a point in time when you WANT to cry over spilled milk.  It is warranted!  You almost NEED to cry over spilled milk for your own personal sanity.  What a day – and you haven’t even left your house yet!  You finally get everyone ready.  Let’s go!  As you reach for your keys, panic shoots through your body.  You realize that in the chaos of children messing around and milk flying everywhere, your keys have disappeared!  “Everyone retrace your steps – find my keys!”  By the grace of God the keys are found fairly quickly and you get everyone to their destination in one piece.  Victory!  Only until you realize that, in all the chaos, you forgot to grab your phone!  Of course you did!  Why wouldn’t you?  Before you can even think about how to solve your phone and coffee problem (not solving them is not an option), someone barges in with a huge work disaster that only you can fix!  And of course only you can fix it!  AHHHH!!!  This is the point when you are ready to head back home and go back to bed!  You pray, “Sweet Jesus please come back right now!”  You open your eyes and you are still at work.  Cue pitiful sigh,  “HAAAA!!”

Although it may not seem like it in the moment, the small daily situations and frustrations will resolve themselves and pass quickly.  The challenge with these situations is to keep your sanity and your cool.  However, your Brewing Ground trial is not a situation that can be fixed nearly as quickly or as easily.  It has already been a long road.  In fact, God has you Waiting while He is working on your behalf.  You are waiting for Him to turn this into one of Your Finest Moments.  It will happen!  While brewing and waiting, we trust God; but, it is so easy to become stressed, emotionally spent, weary, and exhausted!  We have to keep coming back to God and letting go and resting in Him.  Remember, He is orchestrating and directing one of the greatest shows of your life – one worth Waiting for!  While patiently waiting, you must continue coming back to God to find rest in Him; He WILL renew your strength.  This is the only way you will survive!

^“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”  Isaiah 40:31 KJV

As I am reading this verse I can actually visualize eagles gliding through the air with ease.  Runners that just keep going, even after crossing the finish line.  Walking an entire desert and not fainting.  Can you image traversing your Brewing Ground with strength and endurance?!  Just wait on God and trust Him and His perfect timing.  God will renew not only your physical strength, but also your emotional and mental strength.

“Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.”  Psalm 27:14 KJV

There is HOPE!  God is with me!  I CAN do this!  I will trust and wait on Him!

Back to the day when we just want to go home and go back to bed.  This is a point in time when you MUST stop everything and pray, clam yourself, regroup, refocus, and know that you will make it through this day!  “God thank you that I have children to spill milk.  Thank you that there is milk to be spilled!  Thank you for extra clothes to change into.  Thank you that I have a house to leave.  Thank you for a working vehicle with gas to get us to our destinations safely.  God, thank you for my job and for giving me the skills I need to do the job!  Thank you for today; you still have work for me to do.  I still have purpose!  Thank You!”  (You silently pause as you prepare your heart for this next part.)  “God, thank you for my Brewing Ground.  I KNOW that you will use it for good.  I trust you.  But, I am feeling so tired and weary.  While I am still waiting patiently, I am coming to you to renew my strength spiritually, physically, mentally and emotionally.  Meet me in this moment, in this day, on my Brewing Ground.  I can not do this without you!  I know this will be one of the greatest shows of my life; one worth waiting for.  I can’t wait to see how it ends – It WILL be glorious!  Thank You!  In Jesus name I pray and claim it.  Amen.”

Brew with Renewed Strength!