WHAT WAITING IS REALLY DOING FOR YOU
If you’re in a waiting season, waiting for your breakthrough, your opportunity, your next chapter, here’s one thing to hold on to: the wait is always worth it and the wait will often always bring you more than you asked for.
It may not happen on your timeline. It may not look the way you imagined. But more often than not, what’s ahead is better than what you asked for.
Still, waiting can be one of the hardest things you’ll ever do. Especially when you deeply want something and feel ready now. Waiting can stir up doubt about what’s possible, about what’s coming, and about whether you’re really meant for the thing you’re hoping for. But waiting doesn’t mean nothing is happening. It means something is being built.
Here are three lessons that may help shift your perspective while you're in the middle of the wait.
1. Waiting makes us develop
Waiting develops patience, faith, and the ability to keep going even when you don’t have the answers. If we got everything we wanted when we wanted it, we wouldn’t be who we needed to be to hold it. The time you’re getting now is precious, so use it to develop:
Your mindset
Your discipline
Your character
Your faith
That way, when what you’ve been praying or working for arrives, you’re not just ready for it, you’re equipped to sustain it.
2. Waiting makes us raise our standards
If you use the waiting time to develop, you will naturally begin to raise your standards. What I wanted two years ago is not what I want now; I want bigger and better. You are probably the same way. Use this season to raise your standards for yourself, which will in turn raise your standards for what you will want out of life. Sometimes we don’t get what we want when we want it because it would cause us to settle for more than what we were meant for.
3. Waiting makes us clear
When you have the time and space in between what you have now and what you want in the future, that time is not wasted.
The more time passes, the more you learn:
What’s right for you
What you truly value
What’s worth the wait, and what isn’t
Sometimes, we get what we thought we wanted and realize it’s not right. The in-between period is when we can figure out what we actually want and what is good for us.
The ‘microwave’ life is not sustainable and not what is best for us. In a world where we expect instant results and gratification, the waiting period is meant for us to gain patience, learn, and become disciplined.
The wait is part of the plan, and you’re being readied for the thing you prayed for.
x, LG Curry