I applaud God’s creative genius.
I have not met a fraction of a percentage of the members of humanity on the planet. Yet with those that I have come across and engaged with the diversity of personalities, characters, abilities and skills has left me thinking what a wonderful creator God truly is. It’s all the more exciting prospect to know that we are created for good works. There are evidently things for us to do that reflects His creative genius.
“We should do something.” That phrase right there can be the trigger to be about the good works to which we are called. It can come from a sense of inactivity or urgency to move onto something in the light of something else that has happened. There have been times when I have sensed that urge to do something because of the frustration of a situation. Sometimes when I acted out of that frustration, it only made matters worse because it was not thought through, but more about the impulse of the situation.
Waiting on God is not about being inactive, but it is about not taking matters into our own hands. It is about trusting God in an interim period to have heard our cry on a matter and be in the business of responding in a manner pleasing to Him with implications that will ultimately benefit us exactly because they will be pleasing to Him.
Being the type of creatures we are, we set up constructs that can be the vehicles for activity. Some of us are very keen to get these vehicles up and running so something can at last be done. Yet sometimes it’s worth waiting on God for direction before using these vehicles. Haste in using these without direction and instruction can lead to calamitous results even with the best intentions.
Of course there are others who have confused waiting with a malaise. So used to not being given instruction to act, that they wouldn’t know if the permission had come even if it was abundantly apparent. Indeed we can set up all kinds of holding patterns that we love to maintain, that when told to move we would prefer to keep playing with what we have made.
This comes from my mind that is very much grappling with that discernment that identifies when to hold and when to act. Not just when but how to move when the instruction comes in.
What I also recognise is that sometimes we can want activity for the sake of it, yet it’s just a surface gesture. Nothing of any substance to it and making it vain and worthless in the bigger picture.
Experience continues to teach me that waiting on the Lord is worthwhile and activity for the sake of it is not. Experience teaches me that … if I’m up for learning the lesson.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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