Waiting Expectantly

In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice: In the morning I lay my requests before you 

and wait expectantly.  Psalm 5:3

One translation of this Psalm says, "and wait in expectation". Don't know about you, but I am not always a good "waiter". Certainly more often than not, I wait in something other than expectation, like impatience or anxiousness, wanting God to show up and answer my request, now.

So what is waiting expectantly? Think of it like this: when we're young, someone prepares our meals for us. So, if it's close to dinnertime, we know the chef is in the kitchen, cooking. If we're the chef, we know about when the meal will be ready. What if every few minutes, someone came into the kitchen and asked, "are you going to feed me?" or "when do we get to eat?" The chef is thinking: "Of course I'm going to feed you!" and "when it's ready". Bottom line, if we know the chef is in the kitchen, we can be confident the meal is coming.

Thankfully, the Chef is in the kitchen of our lives, so we can lay our requests before Him and know that He is taking care of them. Our part is acknowledging His sovereignty in how and when the requests are handled. Then, remembering God is always more interested in our character than our comfort and He's never in a hurry.

This week, let's look with the eyes of adventurous expectation that our God, the God of the Universe, is personally handling our requests...