Don't Waste the Waiting Part 2

The last part of this series, we started out looking at the very first call on Peter’s life, asking ourselves the question, “What are you waiting for?” 

I want to tell y’all a story that I think really fits well with Peter’s. When I was in middle school, I put a lot of my identity in people and friendships. I thought that the amount of friends that I had and the quality of our friendships defined who I was as a person. There was a point at the end of middle school and the start of high school, where everything started to change. Suddenly, the friends that I had began to pull away. I didn’t understand it at the time, but I slowly started to distance myself from the people that I did have. When I pulled away from other people, I also pulled away from God.

There was a point when I decided that I needed something more. When I first started noticing people pulling away, I pulled away from God too. I thought that if everyone else was leaving, why wouldn’t He? I tried so hard to go right back into finding friends and trying to get back the old friendships that I had to figure out what had gone wrong, but that wasn’t God’s plan. When I was tired of trying, that’s when I focused my efforts on getting to know God for who He was, and that is when everything changed. 

       My story is similar to Peter’s because I almost missed out on God. I was so focused on trying to make friendships that just weren’t meant to be, that I almost missed out on the best friendship and promise of my life, Jesus. When we are striving for something, it’s so easy to forget what we already have. God’s word says that He will never leave or forsake us, it makes that promise to us, but it is often something we put on the back burner. Don’t focus so much on what you want to happen that you forget about His promise, His presence.

Peter almost missed out on Jesus too. I wonder what would have happened in Peter’s life if Jesus didn’t call out to him on the lake. Don’t use the waiting times in your life as an excuse to miss your calling. Don’t use the waiting as an excuse to miss out on what God is already doing in your life. I think it is so easy for us to believe that we have to be in these season’s of waiting in our lives, but the thing about that is, we don’t think anything can come out of the waiting. It is only when we are waiting and watching that we see doors open. If we are running full fledged ahead, we might miss out on what God is calling us to in the waiting times in our lives. Don’t use the waiting as an excuse to miss your calling.