The Waiting Is Not Wasted

We tend to picture waiting as an empty room — nothing happening, nothing changing, time simply passing. But the Hebrew word behind "wait" here carries the sense of a rope wound tight, bound and entwined with something stronger than itself.

That changes the picture entirely. To wait on the Lord is not to sit outside His work. It is to be tethered to Him while He works — in you, before He works through you.

The eagle doesn't earn its wings by flapping harder. It rises because it has caught a current it didn't create. Your strength, too, is not something you will white-knuckle into existence. It is something you receive, by staying close to the One who gives it.