Waiting on the Lord

All three of my kids go to Sunday school now.  Wow, that is really nice.  While I did enjoy having them in church service, it is nice to actually be able to sit and listen to the sermon.  I might actually start taking a notebook to jot down notes now that I don't have kids climbing on me and snacks to fetch, and potty breaks.
Last sunday was a good lesson to hear.  It actually was a fairly normal sermon as far as what I was getting out of it.  Then our pastors' final point, the one he really drove home, was one I so desperately need to hear.  This would have been a good time to have that notebook so that I could review it again and again. 
Waiting on the Lord.  There are a lot of verses out there about that topic.  We must need to be reminded over and over again though.  I know I do.
It is so easy to get frustrated with life.  Easy to want things to happen now.  Not later, now.  Forget that there could be a lesson to learn.  Forget that there might be something specatular that happens with waiting that might not happen without the wait.  Forget that God sees the big picture and not just this frame in time.  Forget that He really nows what is best for me. 
I have been struggling with some different issues lately.  I sort of feel I am in this holding pattern.  A holding pattern I don't want.  I am ready for  some things to happen.  But they aren't.  And honestly, I can't quite see how they might happen.  Or the solution.  But I know I want it to start happening.  I don't want to wait.  And I don't wait patiently well. 
Then I heard this:

Ps. 37:7 "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him."

Ps. 27:14 "Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage.  And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!"

Ps. 37: 34 " Wait on the Lord, and keep His way, and He shall exalt you to inherit the land;"

Ps. 62: 5-8 "My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him.  He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be moved.  In God is my salvation and my glory; the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God."

Lam. 3: 25-26 "The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.  It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord."

Isaiah 40:31 "But those who wait on 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."

That last one is one of my favorites.  It doesn't just tell me to wait on the Lord, but it gives me hope, peace, and something to look forward to.  It is a promise that when we wait, God meets our needs.  He will help us through it.  He will help us with the waiting.

And while our pastor didn't mention this verse, it is my favorite verse of the Bible.  And it fits in everything we do.  Whether waiting, whether acting on something, whether despairing, whether growing wearing.  It is a promise from God.  A promise that what we are doing is not meaningless in this life.  And that He has plans for us.  It fills me with hope in whatever situation I am in. 

Jeremiah 29:11 " For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."