Just Simply Amazing

     During the last few months of my life God has been teaching me so much. I have just finished my third intership session and now I am supposedly going back to “normal life”. Normal life is great and all (it’s a little slow at times, but nothing I can’t handle), but now I have been asking God, “What do You want me to do next?…Finish school? Look into college? Be an intern again in the fall? Go on an over seas mission trip? What?”

     Have you ever felt like you’ve left God a “message” on His cell phone? Well, I have and sometimes I also feel like He takes FOREVER to get back with me. And then when He does finaly answer my call all He says is, “Wait.”

     A couple of months ago God brought this poem to me and now I want to share it with all of you who are also hearing God answer “Wait.” or are wondering what is the next step of faith to take in your life.

In Christ,

My Answer

 

Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried:

Quietly, patiently, lovingly God replied.

I plead and I wept for a clue to my fate,

And the Master so gently said,

“Child, you must wait.”

 

“Wait? You say, wait!” my indignant reply.

“Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!

Is Your hand shortened? Or have you not heart?

By faith, I have asked, and am claiming Your word.”

 

My future and all to which I can relate

Hangs in the balance, and You tell me to WAIT?

I’m needing a “Yes”, a go-ahead sign,

Or even a “No” to which I can resign.

 

And Lord You promised that if we believe

We need but to ask, and we shall receive.

And Lord, I’ve been asking, and this is my cry:

“I’m weary of asking! I need a reply!”

 

Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate

As the Master replied once again, “You must wait.”

So, I slumped in my chair, defeated and taught

And grumbled to God “So, I’m waiting…for what?”

 

He seemed, then, to kneel

And His eyes wept with mine,

And He tenderly said, “I could give you a sign.

I could shake the heavens, and darken the sun.

I could raise the dead, and cause mountains to run.

 

All you seek, I could give, and pleased would you be.

You would have what you want-

But, you wouldn’t know Me.

You’d not know the depth of My love for each saint;

You’d know not the power I give to the faint;

 

You’d not learn to see through the clouds of despair;

You’d learn not to trust just by knowing I’m there;

You’d know not the joy of resting in Me;

When darkness and silence where all you could see.

 

You’d never experience that fullness of love

As the peace of My Spirit descends like a dove;

You’d know that I give and I save, for a start,

But you’d not know the depth of the beat of My heart.

 

The glow of My comfort late into the night,

The faith that I give when you walk without sight,

The depth that’s beyond getting just what you asked

Of an infinite God, who makes what you have last.

 

You’d never know, should your pain quickly flee,

What it means that, “My grace is sufficient for thee.”

Yes, your dreams for your life

Over night could come true,

But, Oh, the loss! If I lost what I’m doing with you!

 

So, be silent, My child, and in time you will see

That the greatest of gifts is to get to know Me.

And though oft’ may My answers seem terribly late,

My most precious answer of all is still, “Wait.”

 

Brianna

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