Peace for Travel and Transition Days

About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges of trusting God's timing during periods of transition and waiting.

It is one thing to trust God with the big decisions. It is another thing entirely to trust Him with the waiting that follows. After selling a house, leaving a job, and moving a family into a tiny cabin on the side of a mountain — all in faithful obedience to where God seemed to be leading — the timeline expectations were clear: a temporary layover, a couple of months at most, and then on to the next thing. But the months stretched. The green light did not come. And slowly, the foot-tapping and watch-checking began to quietly erode the very trust that the step of faith had been built on. Unmet expectations about God's timing can do that. They do not always arrive as dramatic crises of faith. Sometimes they simply drain the joy, one unanswered prayer at a time, until we find ourselves technically still trusting God's will but privately resisting His timing as though they were two separate things. But they are not. His will and His timing belong together. And Psalm 121:8 reminds us why we can surrender both. The Hebrew word translated "watch" in this verse is shamar — a verb meaning to guard, to hedge with thorns, to protect. This is not a distant, passive…

Topics covered

• trusting God
• waiting on God
• faith
• timing
• transition
• surrender

Keywords

• trust
• God's timing
• faith
• transition
• waiting
• Psalm 121:8
• obedience

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Psalm 121:8

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