Working While Waiting

Luke 24:49 (NKJV)
49 "Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.”

Have you ever been in a place where you felt God had told you to go... AND you expected that when you got to that place there would be some kind of reward... ONLY instead of a reward there was nothing... JUST more waiting?

In Luke 24:49, Jesus instructs His disciples to go and wait, BUT tarry -or kathizō in Greek- doesn't simply mean to wait. It has the connotation of patience or sojourning. As if to say that this waiting is part of your journey; part of your process. Sometimes God requires us to just wait until the "promise" comes. In this text the promise is the Holy Spirit, so what God really wants us to wait on is Him.

"He works where He sends us to wait" Oswald Chambers

Written by Frederick A Hanna