Faithful Hands, Trusting Hearts
Waiting on the Lord can look holy on the outside. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it is also a way to hide. Not from God, but from the next step I already know I need to take.
I keep coming back to the woman in Proverbs 31 because her faithfulness is not loud. It is steady. Scripture says she “watches over the affairs of her household,” and she does not live off avoidance, she “does not eat the bread of idleness” (Proverbs 31:27). She stays awake to her life. She keeps tending what has been placed in her hands.
That picture steadies me. A faith that does not rush ahead or freeze in place. A life that keeps showing up, keeps tending, keeps responding to what is right in front of me, even when the larger picture is still forming.
Fear often looks like waiting. It can sound like wisdom. It can sound like discernment. It can even sound like patience. Ecclesiastes tells the truth about that posture: “Whoever watches the wind will not plant, and whoever looks at the clouds will not reap” (Ecclesiastes 11:4). If I wait for perfect conditions, I will stay stuck. I will keep circling the same questions. I will postpone obedience and call it timing.
Sometimes what feels like patience is simply hesitation asking for permission.
So today my prayer is simpler than I usually make it. I am asking for steadiness. For the willingness to stay with what has already been placed in my care. For grace to do the next small, faithful thing instead of waiting for clarity that may only come after movement.
Waiting on God does not mean I stop moving.
It means I move without panic and without trying to force the outcome.
Quiet trust.
Faithful hands.
Reflection & Journaling
Where have I been watching the wind instead of planting?
What is mine to tend today, even if it feels small?
What step have I delayed because I wanted perfect conditions?
What would steady obedience look like in this season?
Quiet Prayer
God, make me steady. Keep me present to what You have placed in front of me. Free me from fear that disguises itself as waiting. Help me plant what You have asked me to plant, even when the sky looks uncertain. Teach me to trust You with the outcome while I stay faithful with my hands. Amen