The waiting is not empty. Even when nothing seems to be happening, God is still moving.
While you’re in the waiting room, wondering if you’ve been forgotten, wondering if the wait means no, wondering how much longer you can sit with the uncertainty — this is what’s happening on the other side of the door.
God is preparing the people who are coming into your life to be ready for you. He’s closing doors that would’ve led you somewhere that looked good but felt wrong. He’s developing in you the exact character traits you’ll need for what’s next.
God is preparing the people who are coming into your life to be ready for you.
– Jacqueline Whitney
He’s protecting you from versions of your answered prayer that would ve arrived too early and broken under the weight of who you hadn’t yet become.
He’s aligning timing you can’t see. Softening hearts you don’t know about. Clearing paths you haven’t started walking yet. Answering prayers you forgot you prayed. Building foundations for things you haven’t asked for yet but will need.
He’s not making you wait because he forgot. He’s making you wait because what he’s preparing requires more time than you wanted to give it. The waiting room isn’t where hope goes to die. It’s where everything is being arranged. It’s where the most important work happens. It’s where you become who you need to be for what’s coming.
You’re not being ignored in the waiting room. You’re being prepared in it.
Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.
