The Art of Waiting

I have a confession to make: I’ve been feeling a tug in my heart for a while now to restart these notes. I’ve had many of you reach out, asking when the next newsletter would drop. Honestly, I was tempted to hit “send” on several occasions, but deep down, I knew it wasn’t the right time.

And then it hit me—what better way to break the silence than with a note on the very thing I was experiencing? The art of waiting. I promised 52 notes, and while I’m not sure where this journey will take us, I’m excited to start here.

We’re taught that if you aren’t moving, you’re losing. But there is a beautiful, quiet consistency in the Word of God that challenges that. It reveals both its completeness and its divine origin. We’ve all heard the phrase “wait on the Lord,” and if you’re anything like me, you’ve probably felt like that’s a passive, somewhat frustrating instruction. We think waiting means putting our lives on pause while God takes His sweet time. But that’s not what Scripture suggests. It’s an invitation to a posture of strength. When Scripture tells us to “wait on the Lord,” and elsewhere encourages us to “wait for the vision, though it tarries,” it is not presenting two different ideas, but reinforcing one truth from different angles. It is the same voice, echoing the same assurance across time, reminding us that God is never in a hurry, yet never late.

At the centre of this truth is Psalm 27:14 — “Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.” This isn’t a command to sit in anxiety. It is a command to sit in confidence. An invitation to a posture of strength, courage, and trust. Waiting is not a weakness. It is a deliberate confidence in God’s timing and His Word.

Waiting, in this sense, is not passive. It is an act of trust rooted in the certainty that what God has spoken will come to pass. The vision may tarry, not because it is uncertain, but because it is appointed for a specific time. And that timing is not subject to human urgency or anxiety. It is governed by divine precision.

Scripture captures this beautifully in Ecclesiastes 3:10–11, “He has made everything beautiful in its time.” Even when we do not fully understand the process, God is actively working within time to bring His purposes to completion in a way that is both fitting and beautiful.

This truth is also reflected in the story of the ark. It’s a perfect picture of divine timing. Animals from all over the world, arriving at different paces. You have the lion, who likely sprinted there in record time. Then you have the snail, the tortoise, and the sloth, taking their own sweet time.

Here is the kicker: The ark didn’t leave when the fastest animal arrived.

It moved only when the Word of God was complete, when every instruction had been fulfilled, when two of every kind had entered just as God had spoken.

It didn’t matter how quickly the lion showed up or how long the snail took. The departure wasn’t dictated by the hustle of the fastest; it was dictated by the completeness of God’s instructions. No matter how fast some arrived, they still had to wait. The speed of one did not override the necessity of another. The completeness of God’s Word required that nothing be missing. Everything God called for had to be in place. The ark couldn’t leave until the last animal was accounted for, because God’s plan requires wholeness, not just speed.

That is how God works in our lives. He isn’t governed by our human urgency or our anxiety. He is governed by His own precision. As Ecclesiastes 3:11 reminds us, “He has made everything beautiful in its time.”

We live in a culture that treats waiting like a failure. We think if we aren’t moving, we’re losing. But Psalm 27:14 says: “Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.”

Notice that the instruction isn’t “wait and worry,” or “wait and white-knuckle your way through.” It’s “be strong and take heart.” Waiting is actually a deliberate, confident posture. It’s an act of defiance against anxiety because you know that God isn’t just slow—He’s precise.

Again, not in our time, not in hurried time, but in His own.

It’s easy to feel like we’re waiting on a "maybe," but Scripture anchors us in a "certainty."

• We see the promise of renewed strength for those who wait (Isaiah 40:31).

• Psalm 130:5–6 speaks of a soul that waits more than watchmen wait for the morning, placing its entire hope in God’s Word.

• We see the call to simply keep His way while we wait (Psalm 37:34).

• Romans 8:25 reminds us that if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it with patience.

• And we are promised that the Lord is undeniably good to those who wait for Him and seek Him (Lamentations 3:25).

Why does this matter? Because of Isaiah 55:11, God’s Word does not return void. It carries its own fulfilment within it. This is the guarantee behind every promise. Nothing God has spoken is wasted. Nothing He has declared is empty. Every word carries fulfilment within itself.

Why can we actually afford to wait? Because of the track record of the Word. Think about the biggest promise in history—the coming of Jesus. It was spoken for generations, it tarried for centuries, and yet, it arrived at the exact, perfect moment. This is where the revelation deepens. Jesus is the “Word made flesh,” the living embodiment of everything God has spoken. His coming was not just an event, but a fulfilment, a guarantee that every word God declares carries within it the power to be accomplished. If Christ came exactly as promised, then every promise still stands with the same certainty.

If God kept that promise, He’s certainly going to keep the ones He’s whispered to you. Read Romans 8:32 — He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

When you feel like your vision is "tarrying" or that you’re stuck in a waiting room, remember this: You aren't waiting for a miracle to eventually happen; you are waiting for the manifestation of something that is already secured. You’re waiting on the Word of God, and His Word doesn’t return void. It carries its own fulfilment within it.

There is no “variableness” in God. No shifting, no inconsistency, no contradiction. What He says in one place, He confirms in another. What He begins, He completes. His Word is whole, lacking nothing, needing no amendment. His Word is the promise, and it is the proof.

So when we are called to wait, we are not being asked to linger in doubt, but to rest in assurance. To wait on the Lord is to wait on His Word. And to wait on His Word is to stand in the confidence that what He has spoken is already secured, even if it has not yet manifested.

God’s timing is perfect because it flows from His nature, which is perfect. And His Word is complete because it proceeds from His being, which is unchanging. In this, we find peace: that every promise is upheld, every vision is certain, and every word will come to pass.

So, where does that leave us?

It means you can stop checking your watch. You can stop looking over your shoulder to see if everyone else is moving faster than you. You don’t need to amend your plans or rush the process.

Whatever you are waiting for, clarity, breakthrough, direction, change, know this: you are not late.
You are not behind.
You are right on schedule.

Your life is being orchestrated by the One who never misses a deadline.

I have nothing to sell to you today.
Have a good rest of the year!