WAIT: Inspirational stories
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Desperate and helpless and longing, I cried.<br>
Patiently, lovingly my Lord replied.<br>
I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate;<br>
And the Master so gently said,<br>
Child, you must wait.<br><br>
Wait? You said wait? my indignant reply.<br>
Lord, I need answers. I need to know why.<br>
Is your hand shortened or have you not heard?<br>
By faith I have asked, and I'm claiming Your Word.<br><br>
My future and all to which I can relate<br>
Hangs in the balance, and You tell me wait.<br>
I'm needing a yes, a go-ahead sign,<br>
Or even a no to which I can resign.<br><br>
And Lord, You promised that if we believe<br>
We need but to ask and we shall receive.<br>
And Lord, I've been asking, and this is my cry,<br>
I'm weary of asking, I need a reply.<br><br>
Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate<br>
As my Master replied once again, You must wait.<br>
So I slumped in my chair defeated and taught,<br>
and grumbled to God, so I'm waiting for what?<br><br>
He seem then to kneel, and His eyes wept with mine,<br>
And He tenderly said, I could give you a sign.<br>
I could shake the heavens and darken the sun;<br>
I could raise the dead, cause the mountains to run.<br><br>
All you seek I could give, and pleased you would be.<br>
You would have what you want, but you wouldn't know Me.<br>
You'd not know the depths of My love for each saint;<br>
You'd not know the power that I give to the faint.<br><br>
You'd not learn to see through the clouds of despair;<br>
You'd not learn to trust just by knowing I'm there.<br>
You'd not know the joy of resting in Me<br>
When darkness and silence were all you could see.<br><br>
You'd never experience that fullness of love<br>
As the peace of My Spirit descends like a dove.<br>
You'd know that I give and I save, for a start,<br>
But you'd not know the depth of the beat of My heart,<br><br>
The glow of My comfort late in the night,<br>
The faith that I give when you walk without sight,<br>
The depth that's beyond getting just what you asked of an infinite God<br>
Who makes what you have last.<br><br>
And you'd never know, should your pain quickly free,<br>
What it means that My grace is sufficient for thee.<br>
Yes, your dreams for that loved one overnight may come true,<br>
But oh the loss if I lost what I'm doing in you.<br><br>
So be silent, my child, and in time you will see<br>
That the greatest of gifts is to get to know Me.<br>
And though oft may My answers seem terribly late,<br>
My most precious of all is still, Wait.
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