Waiting on the Lord...yay right!

Up until Wednesday I was in distress. I was concerned over the unknown events coming up in my life. In two weeks or so Rodney and I will be attending a church that is not a church he is attending nor I am attending. I attended a local church for four plus years and the Lord lead me out to go to a woman's bible study and from that move I became a leader in the class. In a short time, He has changed my life and I am leaving this class.
Stepping back. The church I attended I truly enjoyed and I felt comfortable there so why was the Lord leading me away to this ladies' class I wondered. In time it was revealed to me as it was to you now. Yet, I was comfortable in transitioning to a new class and new church with a new agenda; I was at peace.
I was comfortable in going because I knew the ladies in the class, some of the people in the church and it was good.
Fast forward to today. I am not so comfortable. I am heading out on a new road into the darkness. I don't know why I am being transplanted (again) other than Rodney and I attending one church together. I don't know what I am going to be doing in the church besides learning God's truth. Yes, perhaps that is all that I am suppose to do now. However, I am a doer of the word. I don't want to be on the sidelines, looking through the glass to see what others are doing but be involved.
There are other issues to moving away from my current church into a new church. I am comfortable and my world is being shaken up. I do not like it.
During this week of my trials I felt lead to encourage someone else. I mean after all if I can't encourage myself why not encourage someone else, right?  Here I am thinking that my friend is in distress over her situation so I wanted to encourage her with expressing my gratitude for her being in my life. Don't discount what I am saying, I truly do appreciate her and my intentions were to encourage her without receiving anything in turn.  Little known to me I was the one that was encouraged.
Her words confirmed that what I said encouraged her, but it was four small short words that she used to sign off with that encouraged me..."waiting on the Lord."
I pondered over these four words for a short time and then chuckled.

Sometimes we get so comfortable, as I did, that we don't want our worlds shaken up. Sometimes we get so involved in what we are doing that we don't want to be interrupted. Think about this one. You are engaged into a movie and the exciting part is just about to take place, the music gives it's ambiance, and your DVD or television goes into the ant races. That is what I am talking about, interrupted to the point of frustration. You want to see the next scene.

In my distress I didn't want to wait on the Lord. I didn't want to be patient to see what He is going to do. I want to know now what is going to happen and what I am going to be doing. To make a decision to wait on the Lord takes faith, trust, loyalty, and devoutness. I thought I had these until I read those four words.
I dropped to my knees and told the Lord "I choose to wait on you Lord. I choose to wait for you to tell me what to do next, I choose to take one moment at a time, I choose to wait for you to show me why things happen the way they do and I choose to let you be in control." I must say it wasn't easy, but I said it and I did it.
After I surrendered to God's will and not my own and made the choice to wait, I had a peace come over me; at least for a while.
My friend's husband came to the radio station and when I saw him, my tears fell. I was hurting for their family. Yet again, I was comforted by his words. He appeared to be at peace and I was the one torn up inside. WOW!
I tell you all this to make a point. We worry, stress, and concern ourselves over so many things when we don't have to. When we think the world is coming to an end it should be okay with us because God is in control people. We are our own worst enemy. We think we can change things by worrying or stressing over a situation.  We think we should know what is going to happen next when really we should only think about what is going to take place in the next few moments.
So, if you are like me and in a transition of your life, wait upon the Lord and allow Him to guide your steps. He's all ready journaled our days down, we just have to walk through it peacefully. Surrender your worries, concerns, and those uncomfortable feelings you have in the pit of your stomach to the one who already knows they are there. He is big enough to handle them, after all He's got the whole world in His hands.

Waiting on the Lord
~Marjorie