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The table is set, candles will soon be lit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any moment now, family members will burst through the door after their flights to Miami. My husband, Rich, has just returned with a chocolate cake. My best friend is in the kitchen arranging sunflowers. Music fills the house. My kids are racing around the table with their scooters like it\u2019s the Indy 500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m turning 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel like a kid in many ways, but I\u2019m far from the little Cajun girl from Louisiana. With my dad as both a football coach and a preacher, weekends were spent watching football and singing hymns. I\u2019m far from the seventeen-year-old recording pop music in Nashville, dreaming big dreams. Now, I sit in my driveway in Miami, in a different life I\u2019ve called home for seventeen years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this birthday, I\u2019ve been married to Rich for eighteen years; we have three kids and one on the way. We endured eight years of infertility, moving from barrenness to fruitfulness long before our first child. We\u2019ve gone from youth pastors to church planters, leading a gritty, loving church in Miami for almost a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve had four decades of getting to know the Father\u2019s heart and living His story for me. Like all stories, mine has involved years of waiting \u2014 for courage, identity, calling, marriage, children, and growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure you have your list too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biblical Significance of the Number 40<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

God used long stretches of time to accomplish His desires in Scripture. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number forty<\/em> played significant roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israelites wandered for 40 years before the promised land. Noah and family endured 40 days on the ark. Goliath taunted for 40 days before David confronted him. Jesus fasted in the desert for 40 days<\/a> before facing the Enemy and stepping into power. Disciples shifted from sorrow to joy during the 40 days between crucifixion and ascension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though 40 days or years have literal meanings, they symbolize testing and trials. Moses spent 40 years in Egypt and the wilderness before God called him at the burning bush \u2014 the beginning of yet another 40-year period. It was only the beginning of a new season for Moses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes we feel like Moses, thinking key points are behind us, when we’re in the middle, between turning points. Other times we know we\u2019re in a waiting place. Inclined to resent the wait, we see it as a random trudge. I operated with this mindset until God changed my heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wait Is Life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The wait is not just a season; the wait is life. The question became, Will you live while you wait? <\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humans do not wait well instinctively. We buck against it, even hate it. Entire industries exist to shorten waits. Distractions are welcome if they bring our desired outcome quickly; we scroll until time passes. We assume waiting holds no value, feeling it wear us down over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what if waiting is not meant to be endured, but embraced? What if it’s a necessary part of our growth and transformation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Charles Swindoll once put it, \u201cWe don\u2019t like waiting, but that\u2019s when God does some of His best work on our souls.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were seasons when God\u2019s people didn\u2019t just wait half-heartedly; they forgot all he had done and offered their incense to false gods. They \u201cwent after worthlessness, and became worthless\u201d (Jeremiah 2:5<\/a> NIV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same struggle of the heart remains in our culture today. We are too busy waiting on everything but God. And he is the only one worth waiting on<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God once told his wandering people how they would later give him honor: \u201cIn every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations\u201d (Malachi 1:11<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Jesus walked the earth, he \u201cgave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God\u201d (Ephesians 5:2<\/a>). He became a fragrant offering so our lives could become an offering too \u2014 so we could do what Paul described in Romans 12:1<\/a>: \u201cIn view of God\u2019s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God\u2014this is your true and proper worship\u201d (NIV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we know the praise will continue in heaven. We read in Revelation 8:4<\/a>, \u201cThe smoke of the incense, mixed with the prayers of God\u2019s holy people, ascended up to God from the altar\u201d (NLT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The One Worthy of the Wait<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

He is forever worthy of all we can bring him.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do we do while we wait, when it seems we are just burning time? We live like David, who told God, \u201cEvery morning I lay out the pieces of my life on your altar and watch for fire to descend,\u201d and \u201cLet my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!\u201d (Psalm 5:3<\/a> MSG; 141:2<\/a> ESV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When God spoke to Moses at the burning bush, he showed his heart for his people. \u201cI have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey\u201d (Exodus 3:7\u20138<\/a> NIV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look at his extraordinary love in action: \u201cI have seen your misery, I have heard your cries, I\u2019m concerned about your suffering, and I have come to rescue you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s saying the same to his children today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adapted from <\/em><\/strong>Slow Burn: The Work and Wonder of the Wait<\/strong><\/a> by DawnCher\u00e9 Wilkerson.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waiting isn’t a season. Waiting is life. The question is, Will you live in the wait?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don’t ever graduate from waiting. After one prayer is answered, a new one begins, putting us back in the “space between.” Are you hoping for an illness to subside, a job to open up, a relationship to develop, or some other heartfelt transformation? This slow burn is the human experience \u2014 and the greatest invitation to become intimately acquainted with a faithful God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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