{"id":9024,"date":"2021-04-20T13:55:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T18:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedisciplemaker.org\/?p=9024"},"modified":"2022-06-03T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:12:39","slug":"what-it-means-and-doesnt-mean-to-wait-on-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2021\/04\/what-it-means-and-doesnt-mean-to-wait-on-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Means (and Doesn\u2019t Mean) to \u201cWait On the Lord\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;<br>they shall mount up with wings like eagles;<br>they shall run and not be weary;<br>they shall walk and not faint.<br>Isaiah 40:31, ESV<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>So much wisdom has already been shared about this, a favorite Scripture of many, that I hesitate to go much further. It will be wise at this point to note a modern sage whose thoughts shaped some of my own all those years ago. John Ortberg writes of the difference between what he calls the \u201cfairly trivial\u201d kinds of waiting with which most of us struggle and a deeper, more painful kind of waiting, such as<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u2014The waiting of a single person to see if God has marriage in store but is beginning to despair<br>\u2014The waiting of a childless couple who desperately want to start a family .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<br>\u2014The waiting of someone who longs to have work that\u2019s meaningful and significant and yet cannot seem to find it .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.[i]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He goes on to quote theologian Lewis Smedes, who saw waiting as \u201cour destiny as creatures who cannot by themselves bring about what they hope for\u201d and wrote<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>We wait in the darkness for a flame we cannot light.<br>We wait in fear for a happy ending we cannot write.<br>We wait for a not yet that feels like a not ever.<br>Waiting is the hardest work of hope.[ii]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hope.<\/em> It will be worth it for us to state a few of the obvious benefits of hope before we move on. Author Daniel Goleman shared many examples of the benefits from what he termed optimism in his bestseller <em>Emotional Intelligence<\/em>. One included was a study of 122 men who were evaluated on their optimism and pessimism after their first heart attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Eight years later, of the 25 most pessimistic men, 21 had died; of the 25 most optimistic, just 6 had died. Their mental outlook proved a better predictor of survival than any medical risk factor, including the amount of damage to the heart in the first attack, artery blockage, cholesterol level, or blood pressure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Similar results were reported from patients going into artery bypass surgery. Those who were more optimistic recovered faster and with fewer post-op complications than their pessimistic counterparts. \u201cLike it\u2019s near cousin optimism,\u201d Goleman concludes, \u201chope has healing power.\u201d[iii]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The writer of Proverbs agrees. \u201cHope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.\u201d[iv] Hope is more than a \u201cThere, there, it\u2019ll be all right\u201d pat on your wrist. It infuses our tired souls with life. It strengthens the weak and emboldens the timid. Who doesn\u2019t want more hope?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when Smedes and Ortberg (and Isaiah) connect our hope to waiting, we hold back. When we are told there is a glorious interplay between our waiting and our hope growing, our faith growing deeper, our honest response is \u201cI\u2019m not interested.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some ways, this makes sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems only natural to do something\u2014anything\u2014in the middle of the struggle. To flail and fight is what keeps our head above water. Take it from me: You want your head above water. Yet, as others have noted, waiting is not passive. Nor is it avoiding <em><a href=\"\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2021\/12\/the-discipline-of-irresponsibility\/\">responsibility <\/a><\/em>and hoping things will take care of themselves. Again, Ortberg says it so well: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cWaiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.\u201d[v]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>We want what Isaiah promised: to soar like eagles, to run and not be weary, to at least walk and not faint. We long deep down to survive, but even more, we wonder if all this talk of prevailing and flourishing is more than mere words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Braiding Our Life to His<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps it will help to focus on the Hebrew word translated here as \u201cwait\u201d: <em>qavah<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This word conjures up the image of someone pulling and twisting strands together until he or she has braided a strong rope or cord. One strand on its own frays and snaps with the load. Weave it around others, it becomes a rope bearing the weight it never could on its own. In fact, the noun formed out of this verb is sometimes translated \u201crope.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the idea of biblical waiting is our binding ourselves, braiding our life together with God\u2019s. This is the picture of a relationship with the creator of all things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hebrew concept of faith was a daily, ongoing experience. It was not a formula or a ritual. Faith was not merely an intellectual agreement with some truth claim (though this was certainly part of it). It was\u2014and is for us today\u2014a back-and-forth connection at the deepest layers of our being. Waiting, as so vividly depicted in this verb, is the confident \u201cclinging\u201d to God described above. To wait on the Lord means that you trust him enough to wrap the last frayed strand of your life around his strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And his strength then becomes yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what relating to God in real time looks like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No wonder this beautiful word is also translated as \u201chope.\u201d Goleman is right, and the research supports it: \u201cHope .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. is more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right.\u201d[vi]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those wait on the Lord, the hope we experience is the active reaching out to the God who is there. Our hope shows up when we wrap that last strand of us around his presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give thanks to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author\"><figure class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__avatar\"><img alt=\"Greg Holder\" class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__avatar-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/HOLDER-Author-Photo-bordered.png\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__content\"><span class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__name\">Greg Holder<\/span><p class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__biography\">is author of\u00a0<em>Never Settle<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Genius of One<\/em>, co-creator of Advent Conspiracy and a contributing writer for\u00a0<em>The Voice Bible<\/em>. He serves as lead pastor a The Crossing, reaching nearly 10,000 people in person and online, calling people from an unlikely mix of spiritual backgrounds to consider with it means to follow Jesus in today\u2019s world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/tag\/greg-holder\">More from Greg<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3an6HHq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/NeverSettle_PNG-833x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8837\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:9px\"><strong>Sources<\/strong><br>[i] John Ortberg, If You Want to Walk on Water, You\u2019ve Got to Get Out of the Boat (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2014), 176\u201377.<br>[ii] Ortberg, If You Want, 176\u201377.<br>[iii] Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ (New York: Bantam, 2005), 177.<br>[iv] Proverbs 13:12.<br>[v] Ortberg, If You Want to Walk on Water, 180.<br>[vi] Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, 87.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;they shall mount up with wings like eagles;they shall run and not be weary;they shall walk and not faint.Isaiah 40:31, ESV So much wisdom has already been shared about this, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"What It Means (and Doesn\u2019t Mean) to \u201cWait On the Lord\u201d\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2021\/04\/what-it-means-and-doesnt-mean-to-wait-on-the-lord\/#more-9024\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What It Means (and Doesn\u2019t Mean) to \u201cWait On the 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