Waiting on the Lord

Today I read about one woman's struggle that resonated with me.

When we had the cafe, the finances were always in the red. Because Dan and I felt that God had called us to open the cafe, I naively believed that financial worries would be nil. I'm still not sure what lessons I was supposed to learn. I can only hope I learned what God wanted to teach me so I don't have to go through the same lessons again!

Laura MacCorkle in the story on crosswalk.com said:
I’ve been struggling with an ongoing life situation that has got me journaling and praying and reading and discussing up a storm. I don’t understand what God is doing, and I want answers and a flowchart of how this will all be worked out. Right now.

I want to plan my course and make something happen—move the situation along, if I can, and get the results that I think should be had and on my time schedule.

I can relate to that. How many times did I pray during the most stressful times that God would help me learn my lesson faster so the stress would be over?! And yet, I think the one lesson I most needed to learn was to trust in Him.

Amazingly, when the cafe got an eviction notice, someone came through with the money to pay the back rent--in five figures. Several times we got shut-off notices from the utility company. I even got to know the guy by first name--and he would call us first that morning to let us know he was on his way. He did that so we could get to the bank, make a payment and then show him the receipt when he got there, and he could leave our electricity on.


Over the course of the cafe's six years, I always had cafe stresses, but I ended up stressing less over them. My trust in God's sovereignty grew. I still have bills. I still wish they would be paid now (that instant gratification thing), but I'm s l o w l y learning to take more joy in the journey. Sometimes I have to be reminded, and that's what this devotional and the Bible passage from Psalms did for me. So this is my version of "one generation will commend your works to another." And my way of reminding myself of God's greatness and how worthy He is to be praised.


Psalm 145:3-7
Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise;
His greatness no one can fathom.
One generation will commend your works to another;
They will tell of your mighty acts.
They will speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty,
and I will meditate on your wonderful works,
and I will proclaim your great deeds.
They will celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness.