Ed Chappelle: Father, Are We There Yet?
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him.
~Psalm 37:7
We can say much about today’s society, but the one thing we cannot say is that we emulate patience. We want instant gratification whereas our grandparents waited for years to achieve their goals. This attitude trickles down to everyday tasks. For instance, if we wait more than 45 seconds for a traffic light to change, we assume it’s malfunctioned. When someone is driving under the speed limit, some display road rage. We expect grocery store checkouts to be as speedy as drive-throughs.
In our spiritual lives, are we are missing a blessing because we haven’t learned the art of waiting for the Lord’s direction? I know I do this on occasion.
Do we make the same error as Abraham and Sarah, who preempted God’s plans for an heir? Much of the tension in the Middle East is a result of this mistake. History was altered over impatience.

We are still seeing the effects of Abraham and Sarah’s mistake, and yet they are heralded as champions of the faith. Why? They learned to wait on God’s timing, and that is when they started to walk in the blessing, and shortly thereafter their promised heir was born. Was God teaching them patience?
Let’s look at Noah. He waited patiently on the Lord and continued to build the ark even though it took many years to accomplish this task. Because Noah was faithful to God’s call upon his life and worked patiently even though others were in disbelief to the point of ridiculing him, he pressed forward and he procured the Lord’s favor in the process. Genesis 6: 8 ESV reads, “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.” God noticed Noah’s patience. This resulted in his greatest blessing–God’s continued favor throughout his lifetime.
Friends, God’s timing is perfect. When we allow Him to move according to His schedule, things turn out better than we could ever imagine. Isaiah 55:8, reads, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.”
Friends, God's timing is perfect. When we allow Him to move according to His schedule, things turn out better than we could ever imagine. #VineWords #EdChappelle #Fatherarewethereyet? Click To TweetLet’s wait patiently for the Lord and listen for His voice to guide us before we make choices. Let’s ask Jesus to help us by making Psalm 139: 23-24 ESV our prayer, Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! Amen.
Share a moment where waiting on God helped you to avoid controversy.
Heavenly Father, help me to make the right choices as I wait on You. In Jesus’s Name, Amen.
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ED CHAPPELLE

Ed Chappelle is the Founder and Administrator of Come to the Table Facebook group, a place where people of faith are encouraged to connect with others and share testimonies, articles, and prayer needs. He has been an ordained minister since 2010.
Ed and his wife Kym are known for their animal rescue ministry, Critter Care. Their “family” includes dogs, cats, birds, guinea pigs, sugar sliders, ferrets, geckos, bearded dragons, tropical fish, and a plethora of God’s creatures. Some people say Ed and Kym genealogy can be traced to Noah.
Ed served in the United States Air Force for over four years, earning the rank of Sergeant. He was eight years old when Apollo 11 went to the moon. His love for his country, the armed forces, and space exploration compelled him to write the tribute, Man on the Moon. He contributes devotions to Come to the Table, VineWords, and other ministries.
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Thank you Ed for the reminder to wait on the Lord’s timing.
Thank you for this powerful reminder, Ed. We miss out on so much when rush, and we can spoil a blessing when in our haste we take matters into our own hands. The Lord is talking to me recently about patience and self control. While we don’t enjoy the process of their development, once those spiritual fruits have ripened, they are sweet rewards. I will take your words to heart. God bless you!
Thank you for this timely post. As I wait and wait upon literary agents and publishers to look over or read my book proposals and then (maybe) get back with me, I struggle with patience. I start thinking about self-publishing or other ways to DO SOMETHING, anything, but wait. I needed to be reminded of this today.
Hey Stephanie, I understand the wait, as I am doing the same thing. Please know that you have praying friends here at VineWords, and as a Contributing Writer, I will gladly post your book link here, and I will post it on my Facebook page as well. I look forward to reading your book. Hugs and prayers, Diane Virginia.
Thank you, Diane! I appreciate that.
You are most welcome, sister. Keep us posted.
Ed, I needed this devotion 🙂 today! 🙂 Thank you! It was a timely message. You are a great writer. I appreciate your contributions to VineWords.
Wonderful!
True, and timely for these days we live in. Finding people with patience is becoming rarer and rarer. It’s definitely a lost art. Thank you for this.