What are you waiting for in this season?

Waiting for an answer to a long-standing prayer request; or for a wayward child to return to the faith? Waiting for a miracle breakthrough after a diagnosis? The healing of a relationship? Or the start of a new chapter? Everyone has experienced a season of waiting at some point in their lives. You may be experiencing a time like this now.

In ancient days, many anticipated the long-awaited Savior, Jesus. The prophecies proclaimed in the book of Isaiah gave hope to those who waited. 

“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given;

and the government shall be upon his shoulder,

and his name shall be called

Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,

Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

 Of the increase of his government and of peace

there will be no end,

on the throne of David and over his kingdom,

 to establish it and to uphold it

with justice and with righteousness

from this time forth and forevermore.

The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.” 

Isaiah 9:6-7 (ESV)

However, when the Savior arrived, he didn’t come as a political leader or a great military commander. He came as a babe born into a poor, unassuming family through a virgin. He wasn’t clothed in fancy garments or robes. He was wrapped in swaddling clothes and given a feeding trough as a crib. Jesus took on human flesh to become our Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace.

Whatever you may be waiting for this season, remember that our God makes good on his promises. In the waiting, we can find hope that our Savior is still a Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. Greater still is the hope we can have for the second coming of our Savior. 

This Advent, let us praise God for his kept promises, for sending his Son, and for the hope he graciously gives his children in the waiting.