A new concept: My Spiritual Waiting Room. What do I mean by that? I mean God is the God of seasons and sometimes that looks like waiting. A season of “dryness”. A season of “no answers”. It can often be full of difficulty and frustration. It’s not easy to lay every desire in a basket and push it down the river, the good and the bad, but that’s what He asks of us.
I heard about the waiting room my first week here in Costa Rica. One of our base hosts told us about asking God what her waiting room looked like. I thought, knowing I’m not the most patient waiter, that it might be beneficial to ask God what mine looked like.
I closed my eyes and God gave me this vision of me walking into a room. The first thing i noticed was a blinding bright light coming out of the window. There was furniture in the room, but all I did was bump into it because the light was too bright for me to see and I was unfamiliar with the space. God revealed to me that my waiting room was a very uncomfortable place for me. I was always trying to find my way out. I was trying to find Him, but I would give up after not feeling, seeing, or hearing from Him.
This troubled me. I felt there is so much you can get out of a waiting season the second you try to embrace it. I asked God if I could redraw it. He said yes!
When I redrew it, the window was still there and the sun was still shining through it, but just enough to keep the room well lit. I have this big, two person couch, the comfy kind. The one you sit, sleep, and gather on. One you don’t really want to leave. On the right of the couch is a guitar. It allows me to stay in a constant state of worship while I wait. Above the couch is a picture frame with mountains and the phrase “dance with me daughter”. Knowing what my waiting room looks like now, I enjoy sitting & worshipping while i wait 🙂
What does your waiting room look like?
We can learn how to walk in faith in seasons of waiting, in seasons of no direct inclination of what the Lord wants to do. We can be refined and our flesh can be poked. But on the other side is a loving father eager to welcome us into the next piece of his plan.
This is a really good idea, then you asked for the redraw. The redraw was a GREAT idea. It’s what I would call God rendered, where the room and the contents have not changed, but was rendered to take out a blinding brightness, restoring the contrast, revealing the room. It’s a great room, ENJOY!