Waiting

Elisabeth Elliot says this about waiting on God:
He makes us wait. He keeps us on purpose in the dark. He makes us walk when we want to run, sit when we want to walk, for He has things to do in our souls that we are not interested in. There have been times, on the other hand, when He wanted me to run but I only walked. Let us remember, however that the Shepherd Himself sometimes makes us lie down. Some of the ‘delays’ are His own choice for us, so we must not always chide ourselves when the pace is not what we thought it should be. We must learn to move according to the timetable of the Timeless One and be at peace.