Psalm 25:4-5 Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths.
Lead me in Your truth and teach me: for You are the God of my salvation; on You
do I wait all day.
Psalm 25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I
wait for You.
Psalm 27:14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and He will
strengthen your heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord.
Psalm 31:24 Be of good courage and He shall strengthen your
heart, all you who wait for the Lord.
There is a lot of action required to wait and most of us are
not very good at it. Waiting is not passive at all. I think that may be the
mentality that makes us so crazy when we are in ‘waiting mode’…we feel we are
simply sitting by doing nothing. Contrary to that thinking, when we wait on the
Lord we are actively making changes which would be impossible without the
waiting stage. Consider the butterfly.
The butterfly starts out as an egg on a leaf. God, in His
infinite wisdom, arranged for the egg to be placed exactly where it needs to be
for a built-in food source once hatched. The little caterpillar munches its way
to a state of maturity as it prepares for the big changes ahead. In God’s
timing, the caterpillar spins a cocoon to encase and insulate itself. This is
where the heavy duty waiting comes in because the changes about to be made
require complete isolation for the intricate, detailed miracle God is doing in
its life.
A caterpillar went in and a butterfly comes out! Even once
it’s gone through the struggle of breaking free from the cocoon, the wait is
not over. Do you know why it has to struggle? That struggle was in God’s design
for the butterfly to build strength. It has been proven that when a person
intervenes and helps free the new creation the butterfly does not have the
strength to fly as it should. The struggle of its new birth builds its ability
to live as God intended. So struggle it must. Then it waits some more as its
wings stretch and dry. A wet butterfly is a grounded butterfly. Finally, after
all the changes and waiting, the beautiful creature that captures the hearts of
so many is ready to take to wing and fly. Its life is fleeting but brings
beauty and delight to those around it in the short lifetime.
We can draw a parallel
between the life of a Christian and the butterfly. It’s all there in the
butterfly’s story. Yes, Friends, waiting is very active. The amount of time we
end up waiting, our metamorphous, depends on how much we resist God’s process
for our own life. Personally, I embrace the cocoon time. I know I cannot make
the changes necessary by myself and I welcome the insulation as God works on
me. Waiting on God makes the difference between a caterpillar and a butterfly,
imagine what He can do with us! Fly, my Friends, fly!
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