Day Seven

Have you ever felt like you were riding the bench? Your team is doing great. They are winning, and it is astonishing how well they are playing, but you are definitely a spectator. I feel a little like that right now. In answer to my prayers, God has opened my eyes a little bit to what he is doing in those around me. He may even be working more visibly in others, but the result is the same. I am seeing God at work in peoples lives.

Before you start to think that this is discouraging, let me tell you; it isn't. In fact, it is the opposite. It is completely exciting. The Holy Spirit works in our lives! He is at work changing us, challenging us, stretching us, blessing us and loving us. He is doing the miraculous and it is not always happening in a grand, miraculous, outward way, but within us. Like a pill we take to cure a disease, he is silently working within us in ways that may not seem dramatic, but are no less real or powerful.

Patient endurance is what you need now, so you will continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.

Hebrews 10:36

I will wait patiently on the Holy Spirit to do whatever he wishes, in any way he chooses. I am eager to receive all that God has promised.