Over the course of our lives, there are going to be seasons in which we're waiting for something.

Maybe it's a spouse or children or a new job or that the cancer is finally gone.

Whatever it is, such seasons of waiting often test our faith, tempting us to question God's sovereignty, his goodness,

or both. What does it look like to wait well as a Christian? In my interview today,

Pastor Mark Vrogop offers his thoughts on that difficult, yet important question. He, like all of

us, has experienced difficult seasons of waiting, and he, like most of us,

didn't always handle them very well.

But God has taught Mark a few things about waiting, and he's eager to share that hard-won

wisdom with us as well.

Whether your season of waiting has just begun or has lingered for years.

Mark Rogop is the lead pastor of College

Park Church in Indianapolis and the author of Waiting Isn't a Waste, the surprising comfort of trusting

God and the uncertainties of life from Crossway. Let's get started. Mark, thanks for joining me again on the Crossway podcast.

Matt, it's great to be on the program here with you today.

So, Mark, we all know that it's possible to waste our time.

And I think that's a common struggle that we have, time wasting, and I think many of us would feel

the urge to fight against it. We know it's not a good thing to waste our time. But in your new book,

you are raising the alarm about another danger of wasting something that we all experience,

but maybe one that we don't think as much about wasting our waiting.

So I wanted to start us off. Why did that topic, the idea of wasting our waiting, feel

urgent to you? Because I stink at waiting. And I wanted to get better at this idea in the

Bible that's just all over the place of calling people to wait on the Lord. I mean,

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