First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/worth-the-wait/
SureHope Counseling & Training Center wants to wish you a very Merry Christmas! We hope this is a wonderful time with friends and family, and a time of reflection that leads to a heart and mind filled with gratitude. As 2025 comes to an end, we have been focusing on the topic of healing from family wounds throughout this year. This is such an important topic that impacts so many. One aspect concerning healing that we would be amiss not to also cover is that of waiting.
As we work through healing in our lives, for most people, it does not come as quickly as one wishes it would. It also may not come in the way one may have expected. This is such a hard truth to understand and accept. Although this is difficult, the Christmas story, I believe, gives us a beautiful context to put ourselves in to help to work through this journey of waiting.
Take a moment to read the lyrics to the song, “Worth the Wait” by Phil Wickham:
You are good on Your promise
Sent Your Son to our darkness
Saviour of our souls, He will light the way
Jesus, You are worth the wait
Hеar the host singing, “Glory”
See the star, this is holy
Creator of thе world in a manger lay
Oh, Jesus, You are worth the wait
He will heal all the broken
Take back what the enemy has stolen
With the fire in His eyes and freedom in His name
Oh, Jesus, You are worth the wait
He will die so we don’t have to
And then He’ll rise to make a way through
Forgiven by His love and covered in His grace
Oh, Jesus, You are worth the wait
Every heart, come and adore Him
Every knee, come bow before Him
The King of every kings, forever You will reign
Oh, Jesus, You are worth the wait
Oh, Jesus, You are worth the wait
Worth the wait, worth the wait
Jesus Christ did not come into the world the way it was thought the Messiah would come. Jesus did not do what many thought He would do. The expectations were not fulfilled. Yet, many see and understand now that the expectations were actually too low. What was believed to be a conquering for a time against one government ended up being a conquering of the power of sin for eternal life that is available to all. Sometimes what we expect, long for, and pray for in our healing is not what the Lord intends; He often desires to do something much deeper in our lives and in the lives of our loved ones. When we really meditate on these truths we can come to a beautiful, life-changing conclusion.
Jesus is always worth the wait.
Whether it was waiting for His first coming.
As we wait for His second coming.
As we wait for answers to prayers.
Whether the answers to those prayers are yes, no, or wait…
Jesus is always worth the wait.
The Lord knows the bigger picture, loves us more than we could ever hope or imagine, and we can trust the Lord with this life and with eternal life.
As you celebrate this Christmas, take time to remember that whatever you are working through and whatever you are praying through, you can trust Christ with all the details.
It is a good thing to wait on the Lord.
25 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Lamentations 3:25-26 KJV
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