Waiting and Soaring

We sang one of my favorite worship songs yesterday in church:

Waiting Here For You

 If faith can move the mountains
Let the mountains move
We come with expectation
Waiting here for you, waiting here for you

You're the Lord of all creation
And still you know my heart
The author of salvation
You've loved us from the start

Waiting here for you
With our hands lifted high in praise
And it's you we adore
Singing Alleluia

You are everything you've promised
Your faithfulness is true
And we're desperate for your presence
All we need is you

Waiting here for you, Lord
With our hands lifted high in praise
And it's you, Lord, we adore
Singing Alleluia
My iWitness...

How well do you wait?

Me neither...

What are you waiting on these days?

For character to develop?
For a bad habit to stop?
For the other shoe to drop?
For a personality change?
For an increase in knowledge, appreciation, wisdom and wage?
For a relationship to be restored?
For your game to improve?
For an illness to be cured?
For this blog to be over!!??

Typically, waiting is passive.
We sit...
We stand...
We shuffle our weight from one leg to the next..
We surrender our very being as we become immovable waiting objects...

I get the impression from scripture that "waiting" is active.
It takes...
Energy...
Agility...
Go gettedness (is that even a word?)
Leaping, as in leaps of faith
Enthusiasm
Strength

Take the first letter of those last six words and put them together and you get...
EAGLES

"Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
    the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
    his understanding is unsearchable.
      He gives power to the faint,
    and to him who has no might he increases strength.
      Even youths shall faint and be weary,
    and young men shall fall exhausted;
      but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
    they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;    they shall walk and not faint." (Isaiah 40. 28-31)

May our waiting on the Lord mount us up with wings like EAGLES and

Soar....

And that's my iWitness...
Laugh often and Fear not!
David!